Some shots from Bloor West Village, taken Easter Weekend with a Pentax Spotmatic F with a 24 f3.5 Super Takumar lens and Kodak Tri-x.
Nikon FE2, The Perfect manual Focus Camera from the 1980s?
The 1980s was an interesting era for camera technology, autofocus was in the wings and there was a race to get a chunk of what I would call the casual photography market, both Canon with their AE-1 Program and Minolta with their X-700 battled for that market segment to the death.
Nikon on the other hand had other ideas, while they had the fully featured FA which featured matrix metering and a boatload of other features including an LCD meter read out just like the F3, the FE2 was aimed at advanced amateurs who just wanted a bombproof camera that had aperture priority capability and full manual control. The magic was under the hood with off the plane metering for the SB series of flashes.
What I love about the FE2 is the simplicity, durablity and the focus on the advanced amateur's needs. While other camera companies were chasing a price point or enticing the casual photographer with more features than needed, Nikon didn't play that game and they went for a solid workhorse wit…
Nikon on the other hand had other ideas, while they had the fully featured FA which featured matrix metering and a boatload of other features including an LCD meter read out just like the F3, the FE2 was aimed at advanced amateurs who just wanted a bombproof camera that had aperture priority capability and full manual control. The magic was under the hood with off the plane metering for the SB series of flashes.
What I love about the FE2 is the simplicity, durablity and the focus on the advanced amateur's needs. While other camera companies were chasing a price point or enticing the casual photographer with more features than needed, Nikon didn't play that game and they went for a solid workhorse wit…
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