I had a Nikon FE and an FM back in the mid-90s. I managed to pick up a clean FM in the last year. I made a living with an FM for a while at a small publisher so the FM has a soft spot in my heart. I'd love to have another FE. I moved back and married my high school sweetheart in 1996 after 21 years apart. It was a very small ceremony in her parents' living room. I preset that old FM and handed it to a fellow there with basic instruction and he took our wedding photos. As you said, the significance is in the story. Great story. Thanks for sharing it.

Such a great video. I recently got a FE from someone whose dad used to be a prolific photo journalist, he used it for many many years capturing all sorts of stories across the globe. I love the history these cameras hold.

Thank you for the story. Brought back memories of how I got started in film photography as well. My grandpa gave me one of his Asahi Pentax cameras when I was 11, which led to my love of photography. Years later, as a grown and married man, I gifted him a Nikon F3HP. Then when he passed away, he left me all of his cameras and lenses, which included the F3, and various other cameras. Film cameras will always hold a special place in my heart forever.

Digital feels like reality, film feels like a memory

You are right. What really matters is the story and are the people behind and in front of the lens. Thank you for the personal insights! Greetings from Germany!

Wonderful story. Much much more than a geeky camera review.

Beautiful story. Amazing family and friends. And there it is, the Nikon FE. I have the FE2, black body. It really is a special camera that has been with me for 40 years. Today, I don't think people realize who special a camera is in the hands of an enthusiast. You will get pictures with a camera you will never get with a cellphone. It's a different philosophy. Keep shooting and may that FE last forever.

That was my first serious Nikon. Absolutely brilliant. I bought mine in 1980 and sold a few years later when the FE2 came out. Solid piece of engineering.

Amazing. What a nice tribute.

I bought the Nikon FE in 1979, and later the MD12 motor drive, I still have both and they work and look like new

Greetings from Australia. Thankyou for such a wonderful and heartfelt story. I too have a similar sentiment about my late father's camera, a Yashica J which I have and revere. I was born in Finland, so your video had a special significance in relation to this. I was expecting an opinion on the Nikon FE but got so much more. Thankyou. I also own a FE and it is one of my most preferred cameras.

Olha a gente criancinha lá! Adorei o vídeo, Rica! ❤ I'm so thrilled and moved to hear and see this video! So much love and sweet memories! ❤

Beautiful story, well told.

Very good discussion

What a beautiful story, and what better tribute than to continue using the camera.

Thanks bro! What a story and what a camera.

This is a true legacy. A great camera with a really personal story.

Good video, overly used wide open aperture tho. Stop it down a bit to get the entire camera and lens in focus.

Great video, love Brasilian vibes.

Great video, great memories. Nothing is worth more then memories. I shoot with my Canon 90d, but looking to buy 35mm Nikon Fe to make memories

My mother had this camera all her life and held onto it. Not until last year, she gifted me the camera. I gifted my AE-1 Program to a friend have only been using this camera

O.K., it's a nice camera, but for me there was never any reason to reject the much more solid construction of its predecessor, the Nikon EL2. What would really be better about the FE than the EL2? Size, weight and general avoidance of plastic speak in favour of the EL2. It has the same clear exposure metering needles and is just as happy with ai- or non-ai-lenses. Battery power consumption is just as low, if not lower, and the position of the battery compartment under the mirror, which is wonderfully easy to raise, is ingenious, secure, without a flimsy screw cap. Interchangeable focusing screens? O.K., if you need a grid. O.K., if you need a powerful motor drive. But precisely this heavy MD-11/MD-12 does not fit harmoniously with the rather filigree FE. That's why I have all my FM and FE and FA sent away and am constantly enjoying the classically beautiful EL and EL2; and concerning gridded focusing screen and motor drive I prefer the F801s with much more convenient capabilities. The FE is hardly more than a slimmed down EL2, but less sturdy and less reliable. Maybe your hands are tiny, your fingers 'petite', and you're only interested in some of those especially for the FM/FE era downsized lenses > then of course the FE is the right and pretty good choice;-)) @philosimot

Sold my F2, kept my FE.

I agree that the FE was a wonderful camera, AFTER the first production run. I bought two of the very first ones, anxious for relief from the weight of the full size Nikons I'd carried for manhy hours, many days, as a photojournalist around Asia. But the first ones were a horrible failure. They jammed constantly, because the original mechanical design was incompetent. They were easy to unjam, but that required removing the bottom plate, so I eventually left the mounting screws off both cameras and held the plates on with their motor drives. They'd jam but I could spin the thumb wheel, drop the motor drive which allowed the bottom plate to fall free, flip the lever that unjammed the camera, and be back shooting in less than a minute. I took them back to Nikon Hong Kong where I'd bought them, but they refused to warranty, would not even admit, the terrible design. So I went to another dealer, one with a reputation for standing behind their products, and in a traumatic move, switched completely to Canons for the rest of my film photography career. This all actually happened. The later FE's were fine cameras, the FE2s, even better. I will never understand why Nikon was so irresponsible with those first FE's .

It makes Fujifilm seem worthless Finally a vintage inspired camera that's also full frame

3:45 without knowledge of what brazillian fashion was... I'm guessing this photo is from 1991

I mean the Nikon FE2 would be superior, no? It's basically the same camera with 4000th shutter speed?