Traditional NIKON gear I have 'taken over'

[pentaxpete]

Cor Blimey !! Pentaxpete has now 'taken over ' a load of NIKON film gear to go with all my other treasures !! It is from my Wife who never uses it now she has left Brentwood Photographic Club and just does photos on her Fuji Finepix S9600 ----- The FE + 28mm, 50mm and 105mm lenses came from a Widow Lady for £90 about 20 years ago, then she was given the FG with Nikon bellows ( not shown) by another Widow Lady and I bought the FE2 from a Camera Club member as it has 1/250th second flash synch speed and I used it for a while as all the other local Press Snappers had 1/250 on their Canons and Nikons and my ME Super Pentax only synched at 1/125th -- then along came 'DIGITAL and overnight FILM was OUT and FE2 never got much use. Since then we were given a NIKKOR AF 35-80 f4-5.6D lens which is 'plasticy' but sharp enough. I reckon the 105mm f2.5 Nikkor is NOT as good as my 105mm f2.8 SMC Takumar on my M42 Asahi Pentaxes and my 50mm f1.7 SMC Pentax and the 50mm f1.4 G.Zuiko auto-S lens on my OM-2n beats the Nikkor 50mm f1.8
Nikon FE by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

Nikon FE2 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Nikon FG by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Nikon FG with AF lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

28 and 105 lenses by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

[uddhava]

[Minolfan]

Nice stuff!

[pentaxpete]

Thanks for comments -- here is the NIKON PB5 Bellows Unit which Wife never used, shown with the FG Body + Nikkor 105mm f2.5 lens

[uddhava]

Interesting that the bellows puts the camera on its side. Can it be rotated?

[pentaxpete]

yes -- it CAN be rotated by pressing a catch on the mount.

[chhayanat]

[quote="pentaxpete"]Cor Blimey !! Pentaxpete has now 'taken over ' a load of NIKON film gear to go with all my other treasures !! It is from my Wife who never uses it now she has left Brentwood Photographic Club and just does photos on her Fuji Finepix S9600 ----- The FE + 28mm, 50mm and 105mm lenses came from a Widow Lady for £90 about 20 years ago, then she was given the FG with Nikon bellows ( not shown) by another Widow Lady and I bought the FE2 from a Camera Club member as it has 1/250th second flash synch speed and I used it for a while as all the other local Press Snappers had 1/250 on their Canons and Nikons and my ME Super Pentax only synched at 1/125th -- then along came 'DIGITAL and overnight FILM was OUT and FE2 never got much use. Since then we were given a NIKKOR AF 35-80 f4-5.6D lens which is 'plasticy' but sharp enough. I reckon the 105mm f2.5 Nikkor is NOT as good as my 105mm f2.8 SMC Takumar on my M42 Asahi Pentaxes and my 50mm f1.7 SMC Pentax and the 50mm f1.4 G.Zuiko auto-S lens on my OM-2n beats the Nikkor 50mm f1.8
Nikon FE by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

Takes me back to 1981 in Hongkong where, as impoverished professionals in various trades, we had a camera and audio buying syndicate. We tried to get better prices by buying the cameras and lenses in a group, first having pored over catalogues and magazines. The abundance in Hongkong at the time of photo equipment was unbelievable.