Sad Sad Day for me.......

{OF}DMW · 06-29-2005, 01:12 PM

I was cleaning an overhead shelf in our closet and was pulling some clothes down.... wouldn't you freaking know it. I accidentally bumped my camera bag on that shelf and it dropped 7 foot to the floor.

So I open up the bag... sure enough... my Nikon FE2 body was broken around the bayonet fitting for the lens. Like a dumba$$ I left the 70/210 lens attached to it and that's what caused it. If I had taken it off like I normally do it probably would not have happened.

I really loved my FE2. I bought it over seas in Saudi Arabia when I worked over there in 84 - 87. Nothing was wrong with it and it was in great condition. It seen allot of Europe, Mideast and Asia.... only to be done in by a drop from a shelf. I am so ticked off about it.

Don't suppose anyone knows where I can get an FE2 body... cheap

There will never be another Camera like her.....

Hakko · 06-29-2005, 01:43 PM

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dudio · 06-29-2005, 02:40 PM

good work Hakko !

DMW: I hate when stuff like that happens

{OF}Blong · 06-29-2005, 02:49 PM

yeah good detective work hakko

. sorry to hear dmw good luck

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Soul · 06-29-2005, 04:26 PM

Man, that sucks

{OF}DMW · 06-29-2005, 09:40 PM

Thanks Hakko, u did more than is required of you. I actually did start scouring ebay after I posted. The prices aren't to bad.....

the lens bayonet was bent a little but I am gonna have a camera shop look at it and see if it's fixable and make sure nothing else is wrong with it.

I gotta say. I am glad this forum is here. There was a time when I was heavily into photography. I have tons of slides that I took both land and underwater. I also have a Nikonos V that I used when I did alot of diving. I started scanning in my slides a few years back and kind of stopped. I think this forum will revive some of that.

{OF}Malicious Assault · 06-30-2005, 08:35 AM

I have an old AE1 that I picked up back in the 80's that I loved to use. I need to get that back out and strat taking pictures with it again.

Hakko · 06-30-2005, 10:14 AM

Your welcome.

I'm really surprised at how high some of these FE2's are still going for. I believe I saw one going for $300 or so.

{OF}DMW · 06-30-2005, 01:58 PM

For me I liked the ability of having both automatic and manual. At the time I bought it it was the only one with a shudder speed of 1/4000. Also, TTL flash metering became available. The pictures that it would take were just fantastic. Especially slides. I have 5 lenses and the MD12 motor drive for mine.

I read an article where the guy said that the FE2 is going for as much as it did years ago.

Hakko · 07-01-2005, 09:01 AM

I miss my completely manual pentax that i bought off a shipmate of mine in 1992. I had left it in my car when we got back to port along with some music and a meerschaum pipe I bought in Turkey (i did all forims of tobacco at the time). I loaned my car to Stoney so he could pick up a hooker and the next day I found my window down and the items stolen.

the pipe was very nice. it was an claw holding the pipe. very much like this here
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but larger like this one here
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