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I must confess to feeling a distinct twinge in the wallet area when I saw the Nikon Z f. It looks sensational – especially with the coloured inserts – and certainly does a pretty convincing job of creating a digitalera representation of the FM2. Under the skin, of course, the two cameras are poles – and over 40 years of camera technology – apart, but you get the picture.
I have a real soft spot forlovable. Pros who didn't like all that automatic rubbish in the F3 took to it in droves, but it was affordable enough for enthusiast-level amateurs as well. It's significant that it stayed in production until 2001, outliving many generations of electronic Nikon 35mm SLRs. Nikon made a convincing case with the FM2 for less is more… “Automation is fine, but you want to be in command. Period. For you, pictures are not just pictures. They're images meant to last for ever; your images. Those that you and you alone can create. You need a camera that responds to your needs and wants perfectly. With this brand-new camera, you'll find yourself gaining and exercising greater control over every type of photography you're into, and relishing it. The all-new FM2: the camera that puts everything in your hands.”
