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I’ve got an FE (as well as a F4 and F801), and the FE/FM based cameras are great. One of Nikon’s best designs really. Only grumble with the FE is the shutter speed needle is hard to see in the dark. Otherwise the 60/40 Centre weighted metering is great and the controls all fit to the hand nicely.
You’ll also want a black one with a bit of brassing as they’re sexyLens wise I use the 50mm f1.8 (AIS and AF-D versions) and 35mm f2.8 AI, all reasonably cheap and plentiful. No issues with sharpness of images from either lens. Can get by with f1.8 in low light with fast film, I’m mostly shooting Tri-X pushed to 1600 at the moment
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In the never ending quest to find the perfect camera, I handled a Nikon FM2n the other day. It was marvelous. Made my Pentax feel positively agricultural. It really was wonderful. So I thought of buying an FM3a, but they're just really expensive versus a very similar FE2. So I think I'll buy an FE2. Looking at this over the FM2n mainly for its aperture priority. Any seriously good Nikon lenses I should be checking out? So far I've earmarked the 50mm 1.2 AI-s.