Yes, the FA is quite a unsung hero. Sad that there was none in the showroom at that time, could have talked more about it.

The FG wasn't that bad. Similar to my D3 and D300 pair of DSLR, I had the FE2 (replaced the FM) to backup my F2A + Motor Drive back then.

@@bfs5113 The FG is IMO the real under appreciated camera from this era. It offers manual, aperture priority and program metering. Although it does not have the matrix metering of the FA, much of the other electronics of the FA was employed in the FG, which was developed parallel to and came out about 6 months before the FA. I think the FA was fully recognized in its time,. It was the "camera of the year" for the European industry. It was advertised like crazy for its introduction of Nikon's matrix metering, which was a revolutionary concept. It did not sell at the same levels as the FM/FE series bodies because it was priced significantly higher. After a few years, it developed a reputation for electronic failings, which also has contributed to fewer used units today. Several years ago, an auction site mixed my purchase up with someone's like-new, black body FA. It was mine for a day, and a thing of beauty.

Yeah the FM2 is nice and I wish I could have squeezed into one for the 1/4000. The price point feels a bit high though. I guess we’ll see those increase even more!

Honestly I think it's more important in the used-market today than it was then, simply because crazy-small DoF has become such a popular look, and getting that in strong daylight with an ND does need a faster shutter. That said, I don't particularly care either. 1/1000th is just fine.

Agree.

i mean its flex material for hipsters for being all high quality and that. tbh all SLRs, big name ones or the smaller ones, are gonna be pretty tough regardless of material as long as someone's not a caveman and decides to use it as a hammer.

Very good point about high shutter speeds. I have used 1 / 1,000 of a second but I don’t think I have ever used a faster speed in 30 years By the way, this is a great video with interesting subject material. Thank you. RS Canada

Arturo H&M it’s literally perfect to me aside from the need for batteries (sorry I’ve been burned before) and the fact that the needle meter isn’t illuminated. I loved the match needle so much.

True Daniel, sometimes is difficult to see the needle in dark backgrounds.

Mostly I used the aperture priority and to compensate I use exposure lock (self timer lever in opposite direction) measuring on dark or light area.

leicanoct it’s not the normal price (at least in Spain), I got mine for 200€ without lens. It’s a great camera too, but it’s heavy.

@leicanoct Yeah, me too. Felt 'safe' with my F2A + Motor Drive + Battery Pack four decades ago, since the F2 build was similar to the bullet proof Nikon F. 😊

The MX is a cracking little camera.

They are mentioned in future videos, but you are right. Im not an expert on them and there were none at the shop so we didnt remember. We did 10 vids in a morning, coffee was just starting to flow... ;)

In the line of MX you can find the Nikon FG or FG20.

MX and KX are two of the best cameras made at that time. If they'd had a copal shutter rather than horizontal cloth, they'd be perfection.

That’s good. We don’t want prices to go up :P

We are talking 35mm film SLR's here !

Back in the day people had a camera for life so the name on their camera was just in case it got lost.

In the early 1960ws, Nikon made much of its pledge to maintain F-mount compatibility over futures models. It was a major selling point, in comparison to Canon, which even then had run through two mounts, ophaning its customer base. Nikon focused on sales to pros, who spend big money on lenses that they didn't want to trash later.

Randall Stewart and don’t you love them for it! Zero intention of switching from Nikon for stills. I got really tempted for cinema gear but I like the feeling of loading/rewinding manually so the EF/FD change really threw in a hairball

leicanoct how do you define “few?”

I have never used it but I think its not a bad option.

Keep it, use it, enjoy it :-) . It is an excellent camera.

leonard moody Nikkor AIS 45mm 2.8 P. www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/45.htm

Nikon 45mm F2.8 pancake. A quite late model, came out with the FM3a I believe.

@@josetarrega890 thanks, was the reason i clicked on the video ha

And Rokkor lenses are usually very good and affordable. Minolta is really overlooked compared to other big brands - maybe just because the name isn't alive anymore?

It is a proof that these are all new-comers in film photography. Mentioning only today's famous brands... I would never consider any Canikon over Minolta. Minolta's were so much ahead of their time that you can see today's proof - no matter how much people hate Sony, after all they are most selling cameras today, with over 100 ex-Minolta engineers work for them. Also, Praktica, great cameras, and of course, variety of good, reliable Russian cameras, Zenit, FED, Zorki....

@@dragomirstijovic5569 You are right completely! I watch a lot of videos about analog photography and very few photographers use these cameras that you have listed. Mostly these are expensive Leicas, expensive Nikon camera models, mostly they use expensive models as if they want to show their economic status through these expensive cameras or think that their channel viewership will be higher if they use these expensive cameras. It is as if other models do not exist or that these "cheaper"models are not worthy of their attention. It's not that just American photographers are like that, there are plenty of other European and other that are real snobs in analog photography today!

The video in the series going for cheaper SLRs comes later. Not many Pentaxes or Minoltas hit the 200-300€ bracket.

Interesante, podrias entrar mas en detalle? He visto muchas f3 en venta

riddance77 I was going to say that the FA’s matrix metering could be clutch if you don’t mind the batteries. I think CR mentioned the FA on Instagram though

I agree that the FA was missing as a very solid alternative. I don’t know about their reliability.

What's so practical in 1/12000 shutter speed? Reciprocity failure at the speed above 1/10000 will negate the need for 1/12000. You may never really reach that speed on film due to rapid loss of sensitivity at the speed above 1/10000. > matrix metering, Do you realize Nikon pioneered matrix metering, right? And by the way, there were only 3 models on the market that were direct competitors to each other: F5, Maxxum 9 and EOS 1v. What FE, F2, F3 and FM2 do in your list? Why not include mechanical FM-10 or Zenit E then? Maxxum 9 will blow these out of the water too. > I don't get it, why the fuzz about mostly Nikon? Nikon just works. The same can be said on Canon AE-1. Whenever someone asks for beginner camera, all you hear is AE-1. Or K1000. The thing is... these cameras do what's intended, so why not? ...I mean, take whatever camera you like and enjoy shooting film. There's nothing interesting or exciting about flaming over another silly brand war.

Its gone where we let it go, to many the manual setting are daunting when there is no immediate view of what happens.