Nikon FG Instructional Video Tape
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2015
- This VHS tape was included with purchase of Nikon FG that I purchased at Consumer Electronics or Best (not Best Buy) in 1985.
Video is good for explaining Depth of field and how aperture f-stops, shutter speeds and ISO work. - Навчання та стиль
Thanks for sharing this video. Handy information. Just love these old time vids.
Wow this video is a great UA-cam find. I bought my wife an FG with Nikon Nikkor 35-70 zoom lens and Nikon SB-15 flash unit for a Christmas present in 1985. She took an interest in photography but didn't want to have to fool around all the time with manual exposure setting; the manual/aperture priority auto/full program auto exposure modes along with off-the-film TTL flash metering capability with the SB-15 flash unit was the perfect camera outfit for her; she took many great photographs with hers. Passed on the outfit to my granddaughter three years ago; so it lives on.
It's amazing! It describes all the features of the camera, and by the way teaches you to make better photos. Like an youtube tutoriral from the 80ths. So nice!
The FG goes hugely underappreciated, probably because it was introduced after the successful but basic point-n-shoot EM and replace after a few years by the FG-20, which was a huge reductution of capability and features. (The FG was intolerably eating into sales of the upscale Nikon bodies..) Apart from having nearly every feature of a competing SLR in the early 1980s, it offered a level of features and convenience simply not available on any other Nikon camera of the day. Little known is that the FG was a test-bed to prototype much of the metering system insalled in the Nikon FA about 18 months later. (The FG does not have matrix metering, but it has all of the other features of the FA metering and control systems.) At present pricing in the range of $75 for a good condition model, it is a huge bargain. I bought one many years ago, but sold it because I was more attached to my FE2 and didn't need both. I bought another one a few years ago as a backup.
I just bought a Nikon FG-20 from an older woman who due to medical issues had no use for the camera. It's in mint condition and I hope I do it justice. It's a beautiful camera.
Thank you for this, saved me reading the manual.
Just found my father's old FG camera and I'm not learning how to shoot on film instead of digital! It is a really nice experience !
Picked up an clean FG with the 50mm 1.8 E series for $20. What a fun little camera. I have a D5600 but find myself using this little gem allot.
thank you for uploading this! i just got given this camera by my father and didn’t know how to use it and i learnt so much from this video 😅 so cool to watch the actual video released with the camera!
Got my Nikon fg in 2017
Very nice, and incredibly helpful, thanks. Man, I love these classic instructional videos - I was still in high school then, and just got my first FG last week. Am shooting Ilford's XP2 400, and can't wait to see the outcomes.
I m a Nikonaholc and have over 2 dozen Nikon SLR's with the FG being a favotite. It does everything well in a compact camera.
Thanks for uploading ..
Thank You for the video! FG isn't as respectable as F3 - F5, but all the way it is really good, convenient and cheap Nikon. I have it now and sometimes I use it: despite the digital age came, I like film photography . Greetings from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Great camera! Use it as my main device. Greetings from Odessa , Ukraine 😊
This was very useful since I have two FG's but had no idea how to use them.
Update..missed the FG so much I picked up another one in 'excellent plus' condition. Although I'm used to 'full manual only' exposure setting film SLR's; the choice of exposure setting modes, and the off-the-film TTL flash metering capability with compatible flash units makes for a very handy and capable film SLR.
You are an angel! thanks for this
Loved it
I got one of these for $2 with a 50mm 1.8, a 70-210mm, and a 2x teleconverter. I was at first excited about using the vintage lenses on my Canon dslr, but I'm now excited to get batteries for the nikon and use it! It even came with some film and a flash.
Find some LR-44 batteries. They are available at walgreens or online. GREAT CAMERA !!!
Alex Levy yeah I shot my first roll last weekend and need to get it developed
In Hindsight, Nikon's Series E Lens were very Good Lenses, however ever at the time, they were snubbed by a lot Nikon Owners because of a bit of Plastic(as in the Aperture Control Ring). Often a 3rd Party Lens was bought instead which, was actually a Poorer Lens than the Series E offering.
imagine watching this in 2023
Guilty lol
Hey i just bought this cam
nice
I love that what you see in the camera is a girl in a bikini. The 80s ruled!
What's 'video tape'? 😳😲⚠️
All these years and I never knew that it had ttl metering for the flash !!
10:36 that looks good but man that didn't age well