My Nikon FE has made some good pictures for me, but I haven't made a lot of use of it. I decided to rectify that neglect with a trip to the zoo on a fine morning. I made all the shots there with the Vivitar 3.5/70-210mm macro zoom.
I grabbed a quick still life the next morning and then took a walk in Old Town with the Nikkor -P Auto 2.5/105mm.
When I got to Old Town I found that the meter's batteries had died, so I switched to manual exposure to finish off the roll of Fuji Neopan 400. Back home, I processed the film in HC110b. About a third of the zoo shots were blank frames.
The short series of shots from Old Town were ok, so I'm hoping the dying batteries accounted for the missing zoo shots. I'll shoot another roll of the Neopan 400 to test that theory, and maybe also try developing in PMK to comapare with the HC110 results.
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If I recall, the Nikon FE defaults to 1/90th of a second if the batteries die since the shutter is electronic.
Still a bit of a mystery, for sure. The other possibility that came to mind was a problem caused by the zoom which is not fully compatible with the FE. With the next roll of film through the camera I'll try a couple lenses, and make sure I have fresh batteries.
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