This is my latest find; an early Nikon FM (Serial Number 2194502). The FM was the successor of the Nikkormat range of cameras, labelled by Nikon as the first compact reflex camera. The FM is a fully manual camera with built-in exposure meter – similar to the one that Nikon used in the DP12 prism of the [...]
I’m forever on the lookout for the cameras I once owned when I first started out in photography. Here’s one I picked up the other day for just £20 – the Lubitel 166 Universal (Lubitel means Amateur in Russian). Theses medium format cameras were made by Lomo in Leningrad, formerly St. Petersburg between 1984 and [...]
At last, I finally got my hands on a boxed and mint MB-23 battery pack for my F4. Finding anything for the F4 in mint condition these days takes time, but if you wait long enough you’ll find it. The Nikon F4 was a 35mm autofocus (AF) single lens reflex (SLR) film camera, first introduced [...]
