On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:32:28AM -0600, Bill wrote: > On 07/05/2013 12:31 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > >I was visiting a friend tonight, and his wife had > >mentioned having an old film nikon she no longer > >used and wanted to give to me. Turns out it was > >an FG. It also turns out that it has something wrong > >with it. The mirror is stuck in the up position, > >and the shutter won't cock. > FG was an acronym for Fucking Garbage. It is the absolutely worst > camera Nikon put their name onto. > You can try putting a couple of batteries into it, and then smack > the base of the camera into the palm of your hand HARD to make the > mirror drop.
Or I can set it to m90, at which point it no longer needs the battery to take a photo. The battery was just dead. > You might fix the mirror lock up, but you might also break the flex > board that runs from the shutter button over the prism and to the > electronics on the other side. (if the board isn't already snapped. > > > > >However, it also came with an AIS mount Nikkor 50/1.8. > >The one Nikon lens I was seriously missing was a fast > >standard. > Is it the AIS or the Series E? I'm not aware of the difference, though one of my 100 or 105s has an "e" in the description (105e/2.8?) This is a Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8 4057598 It's about twice the size of my DA 40 ltd and about half the size of my DA 35 macro. > > > >Even cooler, she also gave me a micro Nikkor 55/2.8 > >1:1 macro lens. > Nice lens. > > bill > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
