Nikon FG and TRI-X.

<p>This is my first post in this forum.<br>

A street shot taken in Downtown Newark NJ with a Nikon FG, Nikkor 28 f/2.8 lens and TRI-X 400.<br>

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<p>Welcome! You learn lots here!</p>

<p>Thanks for the welcome.<br>

Another from the same roll.<br>

Nikon FG, 50mm F/1.8 Series E.<br>

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<p>Great rig for street candids, Raymond. Newark is one of my favorite cities. Hang around Broad and Market with your 28/2.8 and shoot from the hip for interesting pics. The wide angle lens offers great depth of field and the Tri-X will keep your shutter speeds above 1/250 to stop fast-moving pedestrians<br>

Though the urban scene here has been changing a lot since the Booker administration, there's still plenty of grit that will take nicely to the Tri-X emulsion. Some of my favorite haunts are around Lincoln Park area an hour before sunset as the light streams down Clinton Ave, Ironbound/Ferry Street shops, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, and the areas of Clinton Ave near Irvington. The mushrooming multi-family dwellings that are now occupying decades-old vacant lots make nice juxtapositions with the dilapidated homes of yesteryear. </p>

<p>Hope to see more of your pics of Brick City real soon.</p>

<p>Best,</p>

<p>Gabor</p>

 

<p>Thanks Gabor, there is a lot to photograph down Newark. I just acquired a Konica Auto S2 and had it CLA'd. That will see some action there also. I had to capture what was left of the Bambergers sign. I remember shopping there for school clothes, when I was young.<br>

This one is from the Gibraltar building entrance on Academy St.<br>

Again Nikon FG, 50mm Series E and TRI-X.<br>

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<p>Essex County Hall of Records/Court Complex.</p>

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<p>Welcome, Raymond. Nice shots. Hope to see more in the future. The FG was my first Nikon and I used it with the 50/1.8 pancake lens. Nice and compact.</p>

<p>Thanks Stuart, the FG and the 50/1.8 was also my first Nikon gear. I bought the kit new in the mid 80s. I still like using it, because of it's weight and size.<br>

It is about the same size as my Argus C4.<br>

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<p>Impressive contrast and composition. Street scenes always look better in black abd white. Hope to see more work soon!</p>

Welcome Raymond!

 

I love B&W and TRI-X on the street is great! We are drawn to the passing of time. I noted the Bamberger

shot and simply read the graphic caption before reading your text! I also liked the lamp. These tid-bits are yelling at us all the time. It's hard to slow down and listen to them! The contrast and composition were right-on. Seems like you and the FG are good friends already! We love posters so please

post again!

<p>Thanks Russ and Chuck for the welcome. I have some TRI-X in a newly acquired Konica Auto S2. I hope to have the film burned soon.</p>

 

<p>the fg is such a silly camera with it's underexposure beaping and plastic top plate but i was given one for free and after refoaming it have not been able to sell it and the 50 1.8 series e for a price worth not having it for. so it just keeps trucking along with me to shoots where i need something small that can get destroyed!</p>

 

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<p>the fg is such a silly camera with it's underexposure beaping and plastic top plate</p>

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<p>Luckily, you can turn that bleep off. I have had mine for 25 years, is that top plate really plastic? I have never noticed.</p>

<p>I think the FG is a great little camera body which was very advanced in its time.</p>

<p>Manual, aperture priority and program modes together with TTL flash compatibility in a small body similar in size to the Olympus OM series which can mount Nikon lenses.... Perfect!</p>

<p>yeah, if the beap couldn't be turned off--i'd have gotten rid of that body the day it came to me!</p>

<p>and yeah the top is plastic even though the bottom is brass! </p>

<p>personally i feel that the fg was a little behind when you think of where pentax and olympus were at that tyme. i think the fg was just a way to give the increasingly tasteless consumers a nikon. </p>

<p>i prefer the pentax m series cameras if i'm going for a compact full featured camera. no program mode on them though. but build quality largely excludes plastics, meter read-out in the me-super, for example, is more comprehensive than the fg. of course many folks don't like pentax's push-button shutter speeds. </p>