What should I replace my broken FM3A with (or is that by)?
The FE2 is much closer to the FM3a. The FA is quite different. The F3 hot shoe is never a problem for me.FA will be the closest then FE2. Forget F3, the flash shoe attachment which covers the film rewind is PITA.
Hello everybody
I recently dropped my FM3A and received wonderful help in this thread. It will cost quite a bit to repair it and as I'm therefore looking for a replacement Nikon, I thought I'd ask for your thoughts.
Truth be told I've pretty much only used the FM3A in Aperture priority, and it has always worked wonderfully well during the years I've had it. Before I bought it I eyed the FA but always liked the idea of a manual and electronic body. When a reasonably-priced FM3A appeared I therefore bought it.
But as now find myself in a situation to consider the issue with an open mind I'm not sure what I would choose. I'm not per se bothered by an electronic camera and actually have several. I know it might be difficult to impossible to have them repaired these days, but that is also true with respect to non-electronic film bodies in many cases.
So if the only "guiding principle" is that the replacement should have aperture priority, which would you choose and why? Unless I'm mistaken the options are pretty much the FE, FE2, FA and FM3A so I'd be very curious to know how you would approach this.
Thank you kindly in advance
Philip
The FE2 is much closer to the FM3a. The FA is quite different. The F3 hot shoe is never a problem for me.
You're right. For some reason I thought FE2 tops at 1/2000s
Being a cheapskate I may go for FE10
Well, just for the record, according to the Nikon Compendium by Stafford and Hauschild, the following Nikon manual focus film cameras, as of 2003, have aperture priority:
F3 and all its varieties, F4 and varieties, F5, EL, ELW, EL-2, FE, FE-2, FA, FG, FG-20, FE-10. The F6, released in 2004, is also aperture priority.
Naturally, you'd want to get the camera in your hands and see how it feels./;
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