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From: jmleask@wateng.UUCP (Jim Leask)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Nikon FG repairing
Message-ID: <2099@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 10:27:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 10:27:06 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 02:50:11 EST
References: <434@cornell.UUCP> <369@wjvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jmleask@wateng.UUCP (Jim Leask)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <369@wjvax.UUCP> ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) writes:
>>Re:  Shutter becomes stuck, mirror locks up, battery dies
>>a horrible death on a Nikon FG.
>
>I have a Nikon FE and exactly the same thing happens to me
>every once in a long while.  After the first time, I learned
>to shove it over to M90 to unjam it.....

I have a Nikon FE and have not had the mirror stick with normal
use, however I did something else that got it stuck.  I was using
the timer and after I set it I realized that I really didn't want
to take a timed picture.  Since you can't just release the leaver
(or if you can would someone please tell me how) I released the
shutter then pushed in the rewind lever which locks the shutter and
turned off the camera.  I thought that the timer would expire but
since the shutter was locked then it simply would not take the
picture.  WRONG!!  The mirror flipped up, the shutter did not release
but it thought it had.  I couldn't rewind and it wouldn't shoot.  
Putting it in M90 released the shutter (wasting the shot) and everything
was fine again.
	As a side note, I really like the Nikon FE.  It is aperture
priority, but has all of the features a good manual camera needs
(both speed and aperture in viewfinder, depth of field, ....)
On of the things I like most is the LACK of dials and lights that most other
cameras seem to have.  It is also one of the few cameras that I have
found that can be completely operated with winter gloves on.
	I am interested in the new Nikon FE2.  It seems to have all of
the good features of the FE with a faster shutter 1/4000 and TTL flash
metering.  I would be interested in hearing the good and bad about this
camera from anyone who owns one. 
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		Jim Leask	watmath!wateng!jmleask