icemncmth Loc: Oklahoma

I can't even rember when I purchased the FE2 but I can say it has had a lot of film run through it. Great little camera!

Ched49 Loc: Pittsburgh, Pa.

A jewel of a camera and I bet it still takes outstanding photo's.

Beowulf Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI

In the late 70's, when I was still moonlighting doing 25-30 weddings a year and I had given up on TLRs, I used a couple of FEs and FMs with never a problem. I later added an FE2 and FM2. Great cameras that were an easy and comfortable .hand fit.

icemncmth Loc: Oklahoma

I still do love the feel of it in my hands. It still takes great pictures.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

icemncmth, I wish now I had not given away my Nikon FTN (black body) that I purchased at Altman Camera (Chicago) in the summer of 1970 when I was in the Navy. The guy I gave it to was a Ritz Camera manager and he told me that it wasn't worth having it fixed. But now I don't believe him. I still think it would have been worth it to have it put back into good working order. -FiddleMaker

Archiefamous Loc: Manhattan

I remember my FE2 jamming on a trip to Maine. A slight push with my finger on the shutter and all was good. Great camera but love my F2as

jsmangis Loc: Peoria, IL

I remember when I bought mine. It was in 1987 in a little camera store in Nagoya Japan. I used the daylights out of it for twenty years until my eyes started to go and traded it in on a new AF model. It was a great camera and I miss it a lot.

CatMarley Loc: North Carolina

I love my FM even better than my FE. The FM worked even without a battery. The spit prism focus was accurate and the manual metering was spot on. Fast, light small and intuitive. If they would only make a digital like that now. Just put a digital sensor in my old FM and I would be happy forever!

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

CatMarley, yes, I would love to have the focusing prism of my old Nikon FTM on my D750. I really miss the way my old Nikon worked as far as focusing is concerned. Of course, with my old FTM I could pop off the detachable light meter and change the focus prism. -FiddleMaker

hiker60 Loc: Northern Idaho

Great, reliable camera. Still have mine; only had it repaired once. Still takes good pictures....

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

Similar to one of my great older cameras.

Your picture makes me think... I wonder how many people never took the "Passed" sticker off their camera?

*Kind of like the "Do not remove under penalty of law" tags found on pillows. LoL

BebuLamar

FE2 is a very nice camera.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

My favorite film camera was a Voigtlander Vito II (automatic nothing) folding bellows camera that shot #620 (I think) roll film and gave a 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" negative. I used that all the way through High School, College, the Army and early married life. After it was stolen by some GI, I replaced it with the same model camera, but one that shot 35mm film and used that for another 15 years. Because they didn't have built-in meters, I learned how to use a light meter and got pretty good at estimating the available light. When folded up those cameras would fit in my back pocket. Sure was easier to carry around than my Canon 60D.
Still have that 35mm version and it still works but don't use it any longer.

I think that "back in the day" we learned a lot more about light, f-stops, ASA & shutter speeds and their relationship to each other than the newcomers to the hobby who start with Automatic Almost Everything cameras will probably ever learn, if they just shoot family and vacation pictures.

I'm not saying I want to go back to the pre-digital days, but we did learn more about the process.

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

I had a batch of these - FM, FE, Em and really loved the handling ... if they would have just had an auto focus feature which my old eyes badly needed ... sigh!

GPS Phil Loc: Dayton Ohio

Always wanted one, sort of a dream. The closest I came was a K-1000 Pentax. I loved it, used it hard, gave it to my son, and he used it hard. It is still working. The dream of having the Nikon apparently stuck in by brain and when I picked up a Df, the love affair returned.

Phil