You have such a gift for telling stories. I could honestly fall asleep to your voice. BEAUTIFUL photos too, you're so talented

i like the photograph, camera and the stories, thank for shared

Even to this day, Steven, the FM2 is one of Nikon's stalwart camera bodies, & I still use mine on a regular basis, together with my FM, F3 & F4.....they're (all) robust, hard working units that I suspect will outlive me - a small (but fitting) legacy for my son....

Having a child made me a photographer. Before my daughter I took photos on my phone for fun. Now I'm holding my first Leica (M2) and I only started shooting since she was born 4 years ago. I just started shooting with a point & shoot digital in July 2021 and only started shooting film since October 2021 😂. First my daughter gave me the photography bug. Now seeing you and other photographers inspire me to work hard with photography. 🙏🏼

Lovely story Steven - I love my FM2 too. It's been a milestone in my life like it has for yours.

amazing video.. memory of a generation.

Amazing story

So many beautiful photos Steven, thanks for sharing your fascinating journey!

Just saw your video now, very enjoying hearing your story, i recall at almost the same year i got scholarship in Japan (Tokyo) around 1994 - 98, i was very dreaming about NIKON, almost every weekend i went to Yodobashi kamera at Shinjuku just to see the Nikon and try it, as well as go to ginza for seeing a shop who specialized only for secondhand NIKON (I still remember its located at the corner of the street at Ginza). After 2 years of saving finaly i bought my 1st used NIKON FM2 at Ginza store. Again seeing your video is waking up my sweet memory at TOKYO when i first time falling love with photography 🙏

What a great video and wonderful story. Thank you for sharing.

You are a story teller sir well done very entertaining yes Nikon's are wonderful cameras I agree

Steven: You had a beautiful life , living overseas , wife ands child , so blessed . I was struggling with my family at the time , I trained for Graphic Arts , but due to family issues , was forced into Construction , I never got to do what you have already done. Thank you for sharing small windows into your adventures , this means so much to me.... thank you Steven. Christopher.

It's so nice to hear someone talking about the old days of shooting photography in China. My father used to have a Seagull in the 90s and he had shot so many precious moments of my childhood with it. Salute to you guys! Now I started shooting film myself about three years ago and I had a Nikon FE as my first camera!

Very real memories, as a peer of course, I have the same feelings, but I stayed at Ricoh mechanical SLR camera back then, and I spent nearly a year of savings to buy a Ricoh mechanical camera. After all these years, I still have this camera, in fact, I know that the value of this camera has far exceeded its value, and for me personally, it is a history. It means a lot!

Steven, can never tire of hearing your history and aspiration for a Nikon FM2. I bought an FM2 in about 1995 and have never regretted it. Super accurate light meter and sharp Nikkor lenses help us tell a story whenever we travel. Since then I have added a Pentax Spotmatic, Kodak Retina IIIC and Leica M3 to my collection, even as I saw the price of film rise to high levels. When I was in college, a 36 shot of slide film maybe cost around $5.75 per roll. Now it is nearly $40 per roll, which is upsetting because color slides are so sharp and vivid. Film makers do face inflation too, but they should remember the many film shooters who are loyal to film and its qualities. Nice of you to share your story. ❤❤😊

Awesome Story and amazing photos📷👏🍀 thanks for the video and your story telling👏👏 nice greets from a another analog Photographer from Austria, Europe🇦🇹

Wonderful story and great images. I owned a Nikon FM2 in the 90's also and lived in Bangkok Thailand. We both lived through great changes in Asia at that time, the globalization of the economies and the beginning of the internet. Some of my favorite images made at that time were with my FM2.

Street photography of Shanghai in 90s. That’s so awesome. I think my wage was 36 RMB per month. 😂

近期看了幾部您的影片，習慣快轉的我總能慢慢觀看完 感覺很奇妙，跟其他分析相機的頻道不同 很像一位親切的老朋友分享回憶，步調雖慢但非常清晰 即使是完全不同時代的人，搭配上照片也會有股說不上的感動 非常感謝您創作了這些影片！

Thank you! for sharing your story my friend, I truly enjoyed it much.

Hello Steven. First of all I must tell you that I really enjoy your videos. It is strange but next to all these technical review videos you find nowadays a video of a man telling a personal story about this equipment in a soothing voice is much more interesting. I am a few years younger than you, born in 77, and did not buy my first own camera until 2006, which of course was a digital. Only in 2012, when I shared an office with a guy who was deep into BW photography I started to look into film photography. Back then was the time, when every professional dumped the film equipment and went digital. And it was glorious. You could pick all the wonderful stuff up for next to nothing. I do own a Nikon F2AS (for wich I looked for a long time, serial number says it was built the month I was born) and a Nikon F3 nowadays. But the first was the FM2. It was a wonderful piece. But I must admit, placing it next to the F2 and F3, I stopped using it. I just enjoy tactile feel of F2 and F3 much more. And while the results are the same and the FM2 is of course small and light, the feel is really important to me. As you said in your last sentence: you might not understand the difference, until you hold the F3. Just the feel of the lever is worth the extra. For that reason I am so astonished, that the F3 today is cheaper than the FM2. I by the way also own and use a Hasselblad 501CM and Toyo 45A view camera. From the content I saw of you so far, you always stayed with 35 mm film, did you not?

Allways a great story you share!!

I stumbled on your channel a few days back and have been thoroughly enjoying it. Being in my 70s living in Pakistan I can fully relate to your longing and experience of owning the FM2. After years of saving I finally managed to pickup my FM2N in Hongkong where I was on a business trip. Now I own the venerable F3HP but still love the FM2. Your channel is so down to earth and so honest please keep it coming.

Sir, you’re incredible. Thankful to have found your channel

glad i found this. thank you

Great memories. ❤

Steven, I’m watching you video about Leica M3 again now! Great job! Keep it up! 👍

Sir, your videos are inspirational.

感谢分享老上海的摄影故事

70后的上海人，感同身受，包括对上海的看法和当时对冠龙店内fm2的记忆，感谢拍了这段视频和大数据的推送。

清楚记得80年代中上海第一批日本相机的价格, canon A1 1800, Minolta x700 1650, Canon AE-P 1600, Nikon FG-20 1200, Konica FT-1 1190, Ricoh Kr10 Super 860, Fujica STX1n 610。还有几款Mamiya。Ricoh Cr5 比较便宜, 要走后门才能买到。

So pleased I found your channel! Beautiful photographs and videos. Many thanks!

This photos are stunning! Inspiring :)

I really love your videos

Please...tell us more about your life. I enjoyed your story. I love your creative use of light and framing in your images.

This is why I love photography - emotion and story telling. Thank you it's a lovely video!

Thank you Steven! I’m enjoying your video very much！ 非常喜歡您拍的老照片！加油，多保重！

I love your photos of this lost world...so beautiful.

I have just discovered your videos. I’m so glad I did. You have such a calming way of telling your stories. Thank you 🙏

fantastic channel. inspiring! unfortunate that I’ve came across this late.

Thank you for such a wonderful story. I absolutely loved your story telling and how you came to own this camera. I could watch more of these. 😊

I really like your story!

最近经常看您的视频，太棒了！我对胶片机的回忆就是我爸爸买的一台理光，承载了太多家庭的回忆。最近开始玩胶片，刚买了一台f3哈哈太喜欢了。

Just outstanding. You brought tears to my eyes 👀

I just found your channel and am really enjoying your videos. Thanks!

What a beautiful story! And such lovely photographs! Thank you.

听哭了，老师讲的太好了，声情并茂，想到了当年中国那样的情形，照片会封存我们珍贵的记忆，每次再看老照片，感叹身边与自己的变化

Beautiful memories also pictures.

Very nice stories, I too worked out extra to buy a Canon A1.

Bravo Steven ! Gratulation !

Very nice video, thank you for sharing these beautiful and personal memories!

Like many others have said, this video is super enjoyable. What a great story. Thanks for sharing it.

i love your story & the way you share your stories with us. Thank you and wish you health & happiness.

I love your story.. thanks for sharing your stories… i bought a used Nikon FM2 body today.. i want to try out film camera… greetings from Malaysia 🇲🇾

感谢博主的娓娓道来，带着我又回到了那个熟悉但再也回不去的上海😂

Absolutely wonderful pictures of history! I enjoy your work so much.

斜事和照片都如诗如画，记载我们这一代人曾经拥有的美好时光。 希望能在以后的日子里系列介绍一下日本的风光拍摄地。很想去日本照些日本风光。 谢谢！

I love your videos Steven! Great information about cameras I'm looking to buy as expected, but seeing photos of Shanghai and China is an added bonus. I was born in Shanghai in 1986 and moved to Melbourne in 1992, so I don't have much memory of those "quiet years" by the time I went back for a visit in 2000 it had changed completely. Hearing your stories of life and prices, is fascinating.

Thank you for sharing - I really enjoyed this!

I like your Video and your Shanghai story very much .also your English .

During the last decades, so ti seems, we see a lot of pictures with no reason. As if the soul was lost. In these pictures you fee the presence of a human being. It is not the camera nor the film, it is the person.

Thank you for the video, very much loved it, I also took photos of my kid’s growing up with my Nikon fm2 and yes wonderful memories. I now have Nikon fm2, fe2, f4s and a F5, but still enjoy using fm2, just found your channel it looks wonderful thanks again cheers.

Thank you sir.

I have a fm2 right now in my bag when I go to work. :)

Hey steve, Amazing images of your travels throughout Asia!! your timing and compositions are excellent. If you ever plan on printing a photobook of these images put me down for a copy!!

Great story :)

I still keep FM

Lucky film is made in Baoding City Hebei province.

大学的时候修了门摄影课，从此就爱上了胶片相机。当时买不起那些名机，用的是最便宜的海鸥相机 FM2 F3 MX M3都不敢想的，现在我全部都有了！！哈哈

80年代我接触最多的相机是我父亲使用的Ricoh CR-10和KR-10 super，它们都是带有光圈优先功能的单反相机。因此我对纯机械相机并无偏爱，而更喜欢带有AE功能的单反相机。80年代我就知道尼康相机很高级，但我一直未见过有人使用尼康，因为它太昂贵。直到90年代中期，我才见到有人使用尼康F801，F70和FM2。那时候我对美能达的印象很好，美能达X-700一直是我关注的相机，90年代也是售价2000元人民币$300USD。但这只是机身，再配一只变焦镜头的话，价格要达到4000元人民币$600USD了。而自动对焦单发相机机更贵了，Nikon F801卖8000元人民币，Nikon F4超过1万元人民币。Steven的回忆也让我想起旧时光，和我的记忆很多是一样的，只是乐凯胶卷是产于保定的。

搜尼康FM3看到你的视频，不知道为什么你讲的英文我能听懂，很喜欢你的频道，一边看喜欢的相机知识，一边学英语，太棒的频道了！

Nice

爷叔真额是上海宁😂 enjoy your video!

I love your video, hope you can keep upadating. And I am a graphic designer too, also love photograph, so I bought a Contax 159mm camera in a faw days ago, hope you can talk about it by a video, if you can, thank you😁.

I still use fm2n

I am the same to you, I like photography and experienced lots of memory with film camera, I still love film camera but cost higher than digital in conclusion. Reap

尼康FM2真的很耐用直到现在我还用着。

當年您戴的手錶可能是Seiko 或是 Citizen ，當年我也是戴相同的錶。口袋裡的Minolta 測光錶在當時只要專業的攝影師才會使用，也是非常奢侈的好東西。

Why was the F3 three times the price? Because it's awesome. I just discovered your channel, and I love your content :)

Excuse me if you have already done it, but, can you do a photo documentary of Shanghai, or anywhere else in China in the 1990's. I find it very interesting because I am Chinese. It could have been my own experience if my family did not emigrate to the US.

说的那家店应该是冠龙吧。当时我朋友日本回来带了台f3到店里，被围观了。

My first camera was a Canon AE1-P, it cost me six weeks wages in 1981. Have you ever used ERA film ?

maybe Lucky is a Baoding film?sorry

冠龙咯

90年初期，我第ㄧ次到上海，我喜歡那時的中國。

Hi Steven 请问那家相机店是不是原来在南京东路·江西中路口的冠龙？😉

Steven老師，請問您可以指導我該如何使用FM2，將正片(反轉片)拍好嗎？FM2的中央重點測光比例是60：40，運用在高反差的場景常常會過暗，是否需要刻意降低iso來解決呢？