The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Nikon FE

Place: Qudos, Salisbury. Equipment: Nikon FE + Vivitar 19mm f/3.5 lens. Processing: Apple Photos v.4, including B&W conversion.

Scan of a print from the time I owned a Nikon FE.

The Nikon FE is one of the few Nikon SLR cameras which can mount almost any Nikkor, including pre-Ai, although the modern 'G' lenses are no use because they lack an aperture ring. The lens pictured on this FE is the Nikkor Type C 55mm f/3.5 Micro-PC Auto, manufactured between 1973 and 1975. As it is a pre-Ai lens, the little flap on the lens throat of the FE has to be lifted prior to fitting the lens. Photographed with an AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D on a Nikon D90.

A photograph of the interior of Qudos restaurant, Salisbury, taken with a Nikon FE and a Vivitar 19mm f/3.5 Ai lens. The lens was made for Vivitar by Cosina. Photograph taken sometime between April and July 2011, being the brief period I owned the Nikon FE.

I briefly owned a Nikon FE. It is one of the few Nikon SLR cameras which can mount almost any Nikkor, including pre-Ai, although the modern 'G' lenses are no use because they lack an aperture ring. I liked to use it with a Nikkor Type C 55mm f/3.5 Micro-PC Auto lens manufactured between 1973 and 1975. As it is a pre-Ai lens, the little flap on the lens throat of the FE has to be lifted prior to fitting the lens. It was exciting to collect the prints, which I guess are digitised anyway these days by the processor. They don't seem to be treated with indifference bordering on contempt as in the pre-digital days, but maybe I was just lucky. It is an expensive way to follow photography. I sold both the camera and the lens in the end.

Photographed with a Nikon FE.

Photographed with a Nikon FE.

A shot of the interior of the Wild Cafe in Bath taken with a Nikon FE fitted with a Nikon Type C 55mm f/3.5 Micro- PC Auto. This is a pre-Ai lens made between 1973 and 1975. In addition to using it with the FE (where a little lug on the lens throat needed to be raised for safe installation), I used it with an M2 extension ring on a Nikon D50 digital SLR. Only with the ring was it safe to use this lens on that camera, although there are some digital Nikons where it could be safely used. The effect of the M2 ring is to provide 1:1 macro; the lens alone has a maximum of 1:2 macro.