The Nikon EM was never very popular because Nikon's traditional constituency wouldn't be seen dead with an "automatic plastic camera"...
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BTW, talking of fashion: Nikon made a special case for the EM: the FB-E. It was a hard plastic case with compartments for body with the MD-E winder, the E35mm f/2.5 and the E100mm f/2.8, the SB-E flash and space for film. It was also yellow.
If anyone has one in the cupboard and now are too embarrassed to be seen with one, I'll gladly have it, especially if it still has the inserts.
Yes, there are exceptions and limitations but I wouldn't call it a myth. There are lots of older Nikkor lenses that work well with the digital cameras. If you don't mind manual focus on a DSLR you can find some great old manual ficus Nikkor glass for a lot less money than the latest Nikkor autofocus lenses for DSLR's.
Yes, that's nice
Here's one for a very nice price http://www.ebay.com/itm/NIKON-FB-E-PLASTIC-CAMERA-CASE-SUITS-NIKON-EM-/191400571114
The AE 1 was a lot cheaper camera than the FE you can't compare Apple's and oranges the AE 1's claim to fame was that is was a good camera cheap.
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You'll have to forgive a non Nikon DSLR user's ignorance.
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Learn-An...-legacy-nikkor-lenses-with-the-nikon-df.html#!
The AE 1 was a lot cheaper camera than the FE you can't compare Apple's and oranges the AE 1's claim to fame was that is was a good camera cheap.
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I remember vividly when the OM1 came out. Perhaps the Apple Macintosh of the camera world. Never owned one, never shot with one personally, nor am enclined to. Nothing against it, certainly. Just stating what was. As far as the topic of discussion, being the Canon AE1, it was no "reply" to the OM1. It was simply an early bird in incorporating plastic to reduce cost of a good piece of marketing. In that, the AE1 was not a bad camera. For what it was, it was actually quite good.
We were discussing Nikon equivalents to the AE1 Flavio there's no doubt that the Nikon FE was a better camera but it wasn't equivalent to the man in the street because it was a lot more expensive.Yes. But i also like the FE more than the AE1. In fact if the FE had a smoother horizontal shutter and a bit more sturdy construction; it would be my favorite Nikon camera. It has everything in the right amounts.
Another overlooked one is the FG. If the FG had a stop down lever and the ability to mount pre-ai lenses, it would be a great camera.
What was the Nikon equivalent to the Canon AE-1 in the day...?
We were discussing Nikon equivalents to the AE1 Flavio there's no doubt that the Nikon FE was a better camera but it wasn't equivalent to the man in the street because it was a lot more expensive.
A very good post , I used to sell these cameras professionally and agree that to the "happy snapper" who would often forget to focus not having auto focus was a drawback, but as far as I recall in those days even the AF systems in the available compact cameras worked on subject contrast and were very hit and miss especially in poor light and AF SLR's were not yet on the market, and once compact cameras with better auto focus systems and zoom lenses came on the market many SLR owners who weren't really enthusiast traded them in for them.It seems to me that the Canon AE-1 did have a huge impact on photography and the SLR, but, when I come to think of it, so much of its influence was semantics.
No small part of the success of the AE-1 was that Canon saw a huge marketplace and was highly effective in claiming it - selling SLR cameras to people who were not really into photography, not as a paid professional nor, even as an enthusiastic amateur. The market was baby boomers (fairly young in 1976) who may have felt that having an Instamatic X-15 hanging from their wrist belittled their self image.
Those who were not around then probably cannot imagine how much the advertising had to do with the AE-1's success. Their ad, showing a photographer taking pictures of a tennis pro, and then the tennis pro taking pictures of the photographer playing tennis, with the slogan "so advanced, it's simple", bombarded the TV airwaves (as the GEICO ads do today). The ad was even parodied by Saturday Night Live ("So simple, even Stevie Wonder can use it!").
The mass marketing caused many hobby and pro photogs to disrespect the AE-1 as a "toy", when nothing about the camera itself could be further from the truth, as the AE-1 was still a well made and highly competent imaging tool one expected and got from Canon.
I find it odd how much attention was put on the fact there was a microprocessor in the camera. It changed how the camera was made, but it did not really change what the AE-1 could do. It did the same things as the Konica T4 (which, to most is exactly what the TC did, as not many would pay for the optional extra autowinder).
Of course, to people who were not into learning photography, the AE-1 did have one huge drawback - it still did not have autofocus, and many an AE-1 buyer would get blurry prints back and stow the camera in a closet, which is why the AE-1 would be so available in the used market for years to come.
Those who were not around then probably cannot imagine how much the advertising had to do with the AE-1's success. Their ad, showing a photographer taking pictures of a tennis pro, and then the tennis pro taking pictures of the photographer playing tennis, with the slogan "so advanced, it's simple", bombarded the TV airwaves (as the GEICO ads do today). The ad was even parodied by Saturday Night Live ("So simple, even Stevie Wonder can use it!").
The mass marketing caused many hobby and pro photogs to disrespect the AE-1 as a "toy", when nothing about the camera itself could be further from the truth, as the AE-1 was still a well made and highly competent imaging tool one expected and got from Canon.
I remember when the Canon T90 came out Allan the design was so different from the way cameras looked in those days the shape was so organic and revolutionary it was like something from 25 years in the future which it proved almost to be https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=...g.1.0.0l2j0i30l4j0i24l4.2472.7535.0.12230.9.9.I remember when the first Minolta Maxxum autofocus camera came out. Two customers were eying it in the glass case in the store I worked. One exclaimed to the other that the Maxxum was the greatest camera ever made. I guess to some people it was.
At the time I was shooting a Contax 139 and dreaming of owning a Hasselblad.
Their ad, showing a photographer taking pictures of a tennis pro, and then the tennis pro taking pictures of the photographer playing tennis, with the slogan "so advanced, it's simple", bombarded the TV airwaves (as the GEICO ads do today).
he ad was even parodied by Saturday Night Live ("So simple, even Stevie Wonder can use it!").
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