Late March Weekend in Midtown

 We're at the other end of this trio of Fomapan 400 negatives, and a bookend, if I started off with my Leica R5, the Nikon FE2, is probably the closest competing camera body when they were both on the market in the 1980s. While Leica's R5 had features, the Nikon FE2, had two modes, full manual mode, and aperture priority, and shared a lot under the skin with the Nikon FA. If Nikon held off another six months the FE2 would have come with Matrix metering but product planners were hell bent on getting Matrix Metering on the market.  The philosophy of the FE2 would be under the file,  simple and rugged. 

While I own both the R5 and FE2 and love both cameras, if I were to recommend a system, Nikon will win every single time for practical reasons. Nikkor glass is cheaper and almost as good as Leica R glass, and are more repair techs that will be able to work on the Nikon FE2 as there are more parts available. 

Camera: Nikon FE2, Nikkor Ai and AIS lenses. 

Film: Fomapan 400, 510 Pyro 1+100.