davel@zinfandel.UUCP (David Longerbeam) (10/17/85)
I have been shopping around for automatic (mostly aperture pref'd)
mid-priced cameras for a while now, and my local camera dealer told
me something about the shutter in the Nikon FE2, FM2, and FA cameras
that I find disconcerting. Disconcerting because the FE2 has all
the features I desire and seems like a good buy.
What he told me is that the new 1/4000 sec. shutter occasionaly jams
when one of the lightweight titanium blades jumps the track and gets
caught in a mess. He said that 20% of these cameras that he sells
to professionals come back with this problem. His claim was lended
considerable weight when someone walked into the shop just then with
their new FE2 with the shutter jammed.
My question is, does anyone on the net have more info about this,
and specifically, does anybody know if Nikon intends to correct the
situation in the near future?
Thanks in advance, and I'll take my replies on the net.
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David Longerbeam @ Zehntel Automation Systems, Inc.
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