Film cameras are yesterdays Model "T." What a shame.

Technology has its place, but there are times when it "ruins" more then it improves!!

Digital's is to "fast food" as SLR's are to "fine dining"

The Best things in life take "time".

I used to shoot a lot of pics with Nikons and Pentaxes, I had box fulls that I took while we were bombing N Viet Nam, wasn't supposed to take them but I was a young dumb kid, but my ex took them when she moved out, the bitch, there were some great pictures we could get the B&W film from the hobby shop and develop them for almost nothing

The Nikon FM2 that my current wife bought me was my fav

Then i spent about $1800 for a Nikon digital, the pictures are descent but not near as good as the FM2 and it came with a damn 200 page instruction manual, all in English, that if you are going to use the camera you had better not lose the manual.

You would have to shoot the camera daily to remember all the $hit in the book

I had a FM2 and FE2 at the same time for a while and one cool thing about both of those models is that they shared the same motor drive.

Yes both the fe and fm shared MD's the M stood for manual and the E was for electronic. If you had no power on the fe you only had a 1/200 shudder speed,that's why the mechanical shudder speed were favored over the electronic.

I still own a Nikon F (with meter finder), F2 with DP12 servo finder, Nikon FA with MD 16 motordrive & assotment of lenses. My only prized possessions are a 58 mm Noct Nikkor & a 50-300mm /4.5 ED glass behemoth. Used to have a complete F3 setup but sold it. Have not used the film camers much. People want to see their pictures right away.... ( we have become a right away nation ). Had to swallow my pride & get a D700 body.

The Nikon F I bought in 1963 still works fine. I prefer it to the digitals although I use them more often.