Hi, great video with clear explanations which are easy to follow. There is one thing that you didn't mention which I think is another advantage the FE has over the FE2 (and the same is true for the FM vs the FM2). There's a tiny button on the lens mount beside the aperture tab. When pressed it allows the aperture tab to be flipped out of the way, which in turn permits non-Ai lenses to be used. They don't operate in auto mode just manual and by using stop down metering. There are some great non-Ai lenses available which are usually 20-30% cheaper than their AI counterparts and having this feature means that someone on a budget can still get access to quality Nikkor glass for less money? Hope this helps.

UPDATE: The meter needle on the Nikon FE in this video started jumping around all willy-nilly a few months ago and as a result, I was getting unreliable and massively inaccurate exposures! After lots of googling and researching, I couldn't find anyone else reporting this issue. I examined the behavior of the needle with the lens off in an effort to isolate the problem and sure enough, when the lens was removed the meter stopped jumping around. When I moved the AI linkage on the camera body, the needle started jumping again. So I initially started "exercising" the ring on the camera body and then mounted a lens on it and started twisting the aperture ring back and forth like a crazy person. After doing this for a while, the erratic behavior of the meter went away completely! I hope this helps a Nikon F* series owner that may be experiencing this issue. Chalk up a win for the good guys!

Have my original FE that my parents bought me in 1979, getting film next week thanks for the refresher course...James

Man this is such a thorough and well thought out video. I just purchased a nikon FE myself, and this will be my first classic film slr from nikon, as I transitioned from my nikon DSLR. I don’t see much reviews on the FE so I appreciate what youre doing here. Keep it up. Subbed!

Fantastic video! Thank you so much. This really helped me make my decision to purchase the Nikon FE. I spent months reading about film cameras and finally got my FE on ebay with a 50mm lens! I am SO excited! Thanks again! :)

Great review, very informative, engaging and to the point. I bought a FE and love it, thanks for the info

Very helpful! I enjoy your manner of delivery, and sticking to relevant points.

This is a Aprature priority and manual control camera and it can be used with out a battery and is got a back up shutter speed

Thank you for another excellent video Eric. I love your very thorough coverage of the features of this camera. I have just ordered a Nikon FE and it will be my first Nikon film camera. I have owned several Nikon DSLRs, but no Nikon film cameras until now. Looking forward to using this camera and having a little fun with a "new to me" Nikon camera.

Great walkthrough, I have had a FE for years and still learned a few. Thank you!

This is a great video! I have been using one of these cameras for years, and I love the Nikon FE. I have shot a bunch of film on the FE. This video stands alone in how it precisely covers the features and characteristics of using the Nikon FE. Huge thumbs ups from a long user of a this camera.

Thanks for this really well done video! I appreciate the preparation and care you put into this explanation.

Great review! Thank you so much!

Good evening. Great Video! Clear, and Concise without any rubbish which there's so much. You really know Your way around Classic Cameras. Not that I doubt your ability on Any other. Many thanks and Kind regards Colyn from The UK. Keep up Your Good work and of course Keep Safe.

I am thoroughly impressed with your perspective and down-to-earth explanations. Just got mine with a motor drive and speed light flash. Anxious to go out for a test drive.

Excellent review and well made video! I actually bought one on Ebay today. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Greetings from a new subscriber in Sweden

I really appreciate this video, in particular how you describe how the two needles in the viewfinder work together. I ended up buying one and am so pleased I've done so.

Thanks for a great photo explanation. When I shoot film I like the nikon d200. I'm im thinking of something different.i also like your background arrangement. Great lighting and setup.

Cool video and beautiful family. Hope to post some of my own film camera reviews, soon!!!

Very informative, thankyou

I got an FE with my first pay packet. I do macrophotography of plants and small animals. The higher flash synch was helpful but even more so the fact that the K type viewing screen could be changed for a plain ground glass, with or without etched grid. The K type focussing aid blacks out in low lighting (even with full lens aperture) and it was not really possible to focus on the ground glass and recompose with a moving subject. I shot mainly colour slide but bought a second FE body (black finish) which was loaded with print film, colour or B/W, as suited.

Extremely well done review.

Really thorough and helpful information. I'm considering buying one and wanted to know more about the camera. Thank you.

Thanks for another great video!

Great video. Very helpful. I just got a FE this week. A little more than $100. Paid $205 with an Ai 50mm f/1.4. Both camera and lens are in mint condition. A great purchase and I'm excited about using it. Picked up some glass as well. And bought an EM with series E 50mm and a 75-150mm series E. Just getting back into film. I was a Canon slr user, and still have a Canon 5D Mark III. But never owned a Nikon. I think I like them. Well done, thanks.

Great video!

I just love the analog Nikon cameras of this era, so much so I got an FM2. It is my ideal film camera for it has a very accurate electronic ightmeter and at the same time is mechanical. It means in case you run out of batteries, it will still work. Minus the light meter, of course. Thanks for the video.

That's one of my favorites that I own! Right next to my Yashica MAT 124g and my Argus C3. It's my first "professional" camera. Couple of Tokina lenses, though. Eventually I need to get a solid Nikon lens.

gave my FG and a coupla lenses to my neice, this looks like a perfect affordable upgrade replacement, nice tutorial on specs, thanks

Hi Eric I really enjoyed this video. I just ordered a FE on eBay, with a 50mm f/1.4 Ai-s lens and am so excited. It will be my first modern-era SLR (I have my dad’s 1941 Kodak 35 rangefinder camera, as well as his 1956 Edixa Mat Reflex C SLR camera.). Appreciate your walk-through of the FE’s features. I’m looking forward to using the match-needle, of all things! I’m fairly new to film photography. I have Nikon DSLR cameras, and my dad’s film cameras. Subscribed to your channel!

I bought my FE about 18 months ago and love it. Since then I have acquired a Nikkormat ft2 with a 50mm f1.4 ai s-c lens. It's all black, showing brass edges. Cool.

well made video sir!!! /Greetings From Sweden

Great camera! Pair it up with some vintage Nikon glass and you’ll be amazed to the image quality. Super fun and easy to use.

I recently got two Nikon FE cameras. One in silver and one in black. The one in black won’t fire a flash for some reason, but my silver one works perfect.

Great to see another big fan of the Nikon FE, nice video. Also, all your cameras seem to in such good condition for their age! a bit of a collector? :D

Great video. I always liked the FE, never bonded with the F3.

You do not have to keep your finger on the double exposure control lever past the initial movement of the wind on lever which makes it much easier to use than shown.

Excellent review. What would you reccomend for good lenses for this camera?

Excellent prime. After some research I'm still not sure how to use the tiny slide switch on some of the Nikkor lens. The switch locks the lens @smallest aperture, which I take it gives the most flexibility in auto exposure, but I don't really know the practicalities of the switch, thanks.

I still have all my old film cams. I shoot digi mostly these days but man I do miss the simplicity.

Great review. I do feel you ought to correct your comment about the double exposure procedure. You only have to hold the lever in for the very first part of the wind on which is really easy.

Little known fun fact which in my opinion makes the FE a better value than the FE2 is that in auto mode most copies comfortably and accurately expose to 1/2000! Some copies, as does mine, accurately expose to 1/4000! I have tested mine a it does expose correctly to 1/4000. This is due to the analog circuitry which works more organically versus a digital circuit which tops out where a computer tells it to top out at. Nikon did not advertise on this because they couldn’t guarantee all copies would be accurate up to 1/4000 of a second.

Great video, thank you! Just wanted to ask how does one use auto exposure in aperture priority mode with non Ai lenses and how is the best way to use those lenses?

Very Informative thinking of the FE as a an option......$239 for Mint condition with a 50mm lens .....thou I wonder if I could get a wider lens on it maybe a 28

The hot shoe is not TTL on the FE; it only has one small extra contact and cameras which do support TTL flash have all three. The FA and FG, but not the FG-20,do support TTL, as does the FM3a. I think the FM2, FM2n andFE2 do as well, but I’m not certain about that.

Hi Errik, In my FE, mirror is locked in upper position and film advance is stuck as well. Maybe you what to do ... .

My FE has a needle pointer-type indicator in the lower right quadrant of the viewfinder, and I can't seem to find anything about it in the manual or online. What does it indicate and how do I engage/disengage it?

The FE series is closer to perfection than any SLR camera has ever achieved in my opinion. They are ALMOST flawless cameras, and if Nikon were to ever get back into making film cameras, I would love for them to build an FE4, which would only have a few changes from the FE. 1. Modern high speed electronic shutter, something like 1/8000 a la FM3a. 2. Swap the permanently mounted prism with the F3's HP prism. The 14mm eyepoint of the whole series is just a bit too short to have glasses on and see the whole viewfinder. Everything else is the same. Ergonomics, controls, the match needle meter + the metering logic, everything. Maybe add in matrix metering with the better processing power we have access to nowadays. The FE2 had a 'feature' where the first 2 shots were locked at 1/125th so if you left the cap on in auto mode it wouldn't do a 30 second shutter. Being that I like to do 'first of the roll' shots it'd be nice to have a way to switch that on and off. Maybe an LED to backlight the meter in dark scenes, and a mirror lockup. That's it. With those adjustments, I'm sure Nikon could cement themselves as THE modern film SLR to get, as much as Leica is THE rangefinder to get. I would get five - no, one for every room in the house to make sure I had it for the rest of my life, and would eagerly suggest it to anyone wanting a modern film SLR. Pair it up with the pancake 50mm f1.8 instead of the lackluster 45mm f2.8 that plagued the FM3a and I'm sure it'd get a lot of attention.

Recently I bought the Nikon FE, my only doubt is that in manual mode, do I have too match the both needles while composing particular subject?

Hello, when the batteries run out and you have the camera in aperture priority will the shutter default to the highest shutter speed of 1/1000?

You made me purchased a Nikon FE from eBay!!!..🤭🤭🤭

Can you change the viewfinder? Specifically, can you mount a Nikon waist level finder on FE like F1 or F2 or F3? Thanks.

The two Nikon cameras that you got and the lenses that are on them you would need over £1.500 or so to buy them if you had the money

Semi professional? In the UK, one of the leading broadsheet photographers had one as standard kit.

Is it true that in A or aperture priority mode, the shutter can fire as fast as 1/4000th even though manually it only goes to 1/1000th? If so, that's a great hidden feature! But why is it a 'hidden' feature? The manual doesn't say it.

I consider my FM as a poor mans Leica M3

the shutter sound of fe is not very nice

Great video!