The world of SLRs changed with the release of the OM-System from Olympus. It proved you could have a professional, high-end SLR in a small package. Nikon, at the time, was producing high-end but large cameras. While the F and F2 were solid performers in the professional market, their Nikkormat line of cameras proved popular. It would make the perfect camera to scale down to produce the next generation of advanced consumer SLRs. It also helped the Nikon recently did their first update on the iconic F-Mount, introducing Automatic Indexing or AI. This mount was first introduced in the final two models of the Nikkormat line, the FT3 and EL2. Nikon released the Nikon FM in 1977, an all-mechanical, metered manual camera, and the FE, a semi-automatic aperture priority camera 1978. These were followed up by improved models, the FM2 in 1982 that upped the shutter speed to 1/4000s but retained full mechanical metered-manual operation. It was superseded in mid-1983 by the FM2n that made some minor adjustments, notably changing the sync speed from 1/200s to 1/250s. The FE2 in 1983 carried over similar specs to the FM2n but maintained the aperture-priority metering. While the FE2 ceased production in 1987, it remained on sale until 2001. The FM2n, however, did change to an aluminium shutter in the early 1990s and remained in production until 2001.
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Classic Camera Revival - Episode 174 -Still Zooming Along
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 173 - Night of the Living Film
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 172 - Travelling Light II
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 171 - In The Loupe: Tawnya Mahoney
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 170 - Do You Want to Buy A Nikon
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 169 - Baby It's Cold Outside II
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 168 - Date Your Cameras, Marry Your Lenses Pt. II
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 167 - Would you Like to Play a Game?
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 166 - Resolved:2023
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 165 - Frugal Film Project Roundtable
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 163 - The Other Nikons
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 162 - In the Loupe: Suzanne Pedersen
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 161 - Unlucky
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 160 - The Little F’s Pt. 2
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 158 - Any Given Situation
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 157 - The Last of the F’s
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 156 - Live from the TFS
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 155 - In the Loupe: Kelsey Smith
Classic Camera Revival - Episode 154 - In the Loupe: I Dream of Cameras
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