A Nikon FG Goes to Blackpool

<p>There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, that's noted for fresh air and fun<br>

And Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom went there with young Albert, their son<br>

from "The Lion and Albert", by Marriot Edgar</p><div></div>

<p>The FG is a nice well made electronic camera, with manual, aperture priority and programme modes and TTL flash. I expect some Nikon diehards didn't like it as its a little too light for knocking in fenceposts, but It's a pleasure to use.<br>

The Blackpool seafront was a building site, so most of the shots were of the street variety, with 400 ISO print film.</p><div></div>

<p>A joke shop. The 50mm lens is small enough to balance well on the little FG.</p><div></div>

<p>This chap was keen to pose for me.</p><div></div>

<p>So I took another of him.</p><div></div>

<p>A Celtic supporter, his dog's name is Boy. There were a lot of Scots there.</p><div></div>

<p>This lady was kind enough to let me take her picture.</p>

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<p>A street scene.</p><div></div>

<p>For some reason, we decided not to stay at this particular bed & breakfast, even though there were vacancies.</p><div></div>

Last one, the famous tower but from a different viewpoint. Thanks for looking.<div></div>

<p>Oh one more, back to "The Lion and Albert".</p><div></div>

<p>I really wish that you had stayed in that bed and breakfast, and entertained us with some more pictures of the landlady, who is sure to be a character! Lovely images.</p>

<p>Really nice! Wonderful portraits.<br>

How nice that everybody seems to be having fun.</p>

<p>Sure is a pretty camera too, but I'm not sure about any Nikon that is not heavy enough to drive in tent stakes, etc. ;)</p>

<p>Nice series with sharp and colorful images. The portraits are especially good.</p>

<p>Good street work, John. Thanks</p>

<p>Good street work, John. Thanks</p>

<p>I was recently given a black FG without a lens; I gave it the same almost-pancake Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI-S that you have. The camera is missing the little screw-on finger grip on the right-hand side, but I don't miss it. The FG is an impressive little camera, and the program mode works very well. I like it much more than I had expected to. My one annoyance is that I don't care for the hinged film advance lever, which just feels kind of cheap to me.</p>

<p>Nice pictures; I particularly like "Man with Stick" and "Street Scene."</p>

<p>Good punchy images, <strong>John</strong>. English street scenes are just so, um..."English"! You've captured a fine range of characters with the FG and it's very crisp lens.</p>

<p>Thanks for the comments, much appreciated.<br>

I still can't quite work out why it seems (at least to me) so much easier to get this type of picture with an old film camera.</p>

<p>Nice shots John - well observed. I have a theory about the film camera taking style - nowadays ,if you don't hold the camera at arms length,it probably isn't a camera at all.<br>

Back in the day, TLR's used with the w/level finder at ,gasp,waist level worked in pretty much the same way.</p>

<p>Nice job! Too bad the 'man with a stick' over-exposed the man a little.</p>

<p>The FG is a very enjoyable camera to use. I agree the program mode is underrated. It handles nicely, and has a bright viewfinder. The one thing I did not like was the shutter sounds really cheap. That may have been just my particular camera.</p>

<p>It is one of the few cameras where the exposure compensation is actually easy to use!</p>

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<p>The English newspaper lady says England to me very loudly very nice series there also</p>