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Thanks for the synopsis ..... Anything would appear pedestrian alongside a Lyndon lens !

Rare Robot Star Junior with 2.8 Xenar Lens , 2 Original Cassettes, ERCase, Original Hood and Manual, professionally tested and cosmetically all pristine. Advertised on E/B at £150 and no interest being shown, can't figure out why !

Mainly The latter, worth according to Collectiblend goes for about $300 US

Gumtree always a possibility, but where else - has to be somewhere surely 😟

Which regularly airs on YouTube 😎

I'm asking who knows of a UK photo goods dealer, that they have personally found to be reliable, trustworthy and genuinely helpful. I have only got one answer so far!

Cheers Gerald :0)

Thanks Niels, in a strange way I guess it has....ooh dear what age can do to us all 🤔

It was back in the late 80s when Nikon did not have a replacement shutter for my early FE2. From what I understand that situation remained, but to be honest Mike, since then I have not asked, as I soon gave that camera away: it's a fair question though😐

Bebu : Appreciate your reply and your reasonings therein. Hopefully my subsequent posts will clarify the points, especially my complaining about Nikon not having a spare shutter in their FE2 drawer, when the camera was only around 5 yrs old. ps. Sorry to hear about your Maxxum 7 .but as the saying goes : " Win some, lose some "

Orsetto, What can I say... You've answered all the questions brilliantly and sincerely I thank you : I had suspected most of what you have now confirmed but tis great to hear from an expert!

My apologies, me using the word just was causing you confusion. Just was used as in : "it happened, back then, without warning" and not as in "it just happened recently ". Sorry Mike 😳

Orsetto: Thanks for the detailed reply and much appreciated. My FE2 shutter was physically finished to put it ploitely as they say in brum. A couple of points : One, having used dozens of cameras and taken on them well over 100,000 wedding images, this was the only time a f/p shutter literally physically broke, and point two is that I very quickly found out from repairers that Nikon did not carry a replacement shutter for the FE2. This was when the camera was no more than 5 or 6 years old : even my hardened repairers were lost for words. Regarding Nikon F, mine is dated 1968 and the shutter is perfect, the Photomic meter appears dead but that's par for the course.. As for Blads I've never met anybody who has not had problems with their "Prized Piccy Machine".. just would add that my own personal fave 35mm SLR was a Mintola Dynax 7.... outstanding was the only word for it. Cheers and thanks again for your interest 😊

cheers Gerald, but is that a good un or a bad un ?

Lets have some names😎

Yes thanks one & all, I know how old the camera is, or would have been, my question is simply has a shutter failed on anybody else's Fe2 ?

Used Only for 5 yrs, no warning just completely seized f/p shutter...anybody else had this happen?