KankRat wrote:
The prices of used Nikon gear is WAY up from the last couple years. Film especially. My film camera collection is actually worth something!
I should sell my FG. I should like it - fantastic size, cute looks, nice features - but it just doesn't click with me. I think it is because the clangy feel when I take a shot - not well dampened. But I keep it around because it is such a good beginner SLR - just stick it on P and let the user concentrate on composition and focus.
Desmolicious wrote: KankRat wroteThe prices of used Nikon gear is WAY up from the last couple years. Film especially. My film camera collection is actually worth something!I should sell my FG. I should like it - fantastic size, cute looks, nice features - but it just doesn't click with me. I think it is because the clangy feel when I take a shot - not well dampened. But I keep it around because it is such a good beginner SLR - just stick it on P and let the user concentrate on composition and focus.
I've got one in really good condition. Bought it in about 2015 ish. I think. Paid $40 for it from a guy on Offer Up. The purchase was actually for the 50mm 1.8 that came with it. A clean AI, not AI-S which I thought was odd. It is indeed cute and a nice size and kinda cheapish. I don't think I have ever used it. I have an FM2, an F3 and an F80 and those are finally starting to get film going thru them.
For a while there people were giving me cameras or selling them to me at prices I could not refuse. I have a clean Canon A1, a Pentax K1000 and Olympus OM10 too. I also have a Pentax 6X7 with about 4 lenses. None of these have been used by me yet.
Desmolicious wrote: EB-1 wroteDidn't the FG have that terrible double metering with stop down like the FA? Moving subjects were elsewhere at time of exposure.
EBHNo. Standard Nikon center weighted metering.
I mean the shutter delay. Maybe the FG was faster than the FA. I just assumed they were the same due to the inaccurate control of the diaphragm.
EB-1 wrote: Desmolicious wroteEB-1 wroteDidn't the FG have that terrible double metering with stop down like the FA? Moving subjects were elsewhere at time of exposure.
EBHNo. Standard Nikon center weighted metering.I mean the shutter delay. Maybe the FG was faster than the FA. I just assumed they were the same due to the inaccurate control of the diaphragm.
EBH
I haven’t noticed a delay. I’ll pull it out to see if I just haven’t been paying attention.