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Nikon FM 2 Camera Body in original box with original paperwork

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Nikon FM 2 Camera Body in original box with original paperwork
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The FM and FE were introduced in the late 1970s as light weight, lower cost alternatives to the flagship F2.



The FM series is mechanical with manual exposure.



The FE series is electronic with automatic exposure control.



The FM, introduced in 1977, was a mechanical manual camera with a built in three LED + 0 - meter similar to the F2AS. People didn't take the FM very seriously compared to the F2 back then. That was too bad because the only things the F2 did that made it different were features that no one uses anyway like interchangeable screens, interchangeable prisms and 250 exposure film backs. The FM has a 1-1,000 shutter and 1/125 flash sync.



The FE, introduced in 1978, was an electronically controlled aperture-priority automatic and manual exposure camera very similar to the FM. Unlike the FM it has interchangeable focusing screens. It takes the same backs and motor drives. It has two needles in the finder: one is the setting of the camera's shutter speed knob, and one is the exposure suggested by the light meter. This allows easy use in manual exposure setting: just match the needles. In the A setting then only the one needle indicates the shutter speed set by the camera. Marked shutter speeds go from 8 seconds to 1/1,000, flash sync is 1/125, and a mechanical speed of 1/90 also available for the paranoid who were worried about the batteries dying. A secret feature for night photography is that in A mode the FE will time perfect exposures as long as several MINUTES, and draw only 11mA from the button cells while doing it.



In 1982 the FM2 added a brighter screen and faster shutter speeds to 1/4000 and 1/200 to 1/250 flash sync. The trick to getting 1/250 sync is to set the shutter that way and ignore the blinking flash indicator. Pop Photo's 1st article about the FM2 was published in the April 1982 issue.



From the collection of Don Dondero.

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FHWAC#: 25839