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Nikon FE2

While most Nikon attention gets paid to their professional line of cameras, such as the F2 and F3, the Nikon FE2 is quietly considered one of the best 35mm SLR cameras out there.

Built between 1983 and 1987, the FE2 (and its twin the FM2) was a successor to the earlier FE camera. The FE2 took the design of the FE camera and evolved it in all the right ways. The top shutter speed was increased to 1/4,000, flash sync improved to 1/250, they added an improved light meter, as well as an even more rugged and robust shutter.

The Nikon FE2 allows semi-automatic aperture priority exposure control and, while the shutter is battery dependent, the camera does feature a mechanical 1/90 and Bulb modes, in the event of battery failure.

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Nikon FE2 reskinned in blue

We hold the Nikon FE2 in high enough esteem as it is. The whole FE/FM family of cameras by Nikon is such a well designed and superbly built clan of cameras. In the FE2 you have many of the functions and features you would expect to find on a professional SLR, from depth of field preview, mirror lock up, multiple exposure, aperture priority auto exposure, a 1/4000th of a second top shutter speed, and so on. The FE2 is a powerful little camera. ⁠

⁠Now, put an iridescent blue skin on this beautiful machine, dress it up like a dragon... You take a camera that was already a thing of beauty and allow it to transcend the realms of mere mortal film SLRs. The detail that really gets us on this magically re-imagined camera - the matching leatherette on the prism and the film advance lever. Seeing that, we think, "Oh, that's just not fair! As if this camera wasn't gorgeous enough." The leatherette kits available for most cameras don't generally include the prism or that patch on the film advance. That makes this FE2 stand out for us. ⁠

So you are really going to want this camera. We know this because WE really want this camera, despite already owning our own Nikons. This FE2 is going to make one photographer verrrrry happy and hundreds of other photographers very jealous.