![]() When the shutter is fired in program mode, just after the lens is stopped down-and before the mirror pops up-the FG takes a meter reading to set the final shutter speed. One innovative feature that Popular Photography covered in our July 1983 Nikon FG Lab Report (in which we tore the camera down to its bare frame) is the camera’s last-second metering check. Ingenious workaround enables new tech on old lenses Competing cameras included the Canon AE-1 Program, which sold retail for $170, and the Minolta X-700 at $195. For comparison, retailers were getting $99 for an EM, $205 for an FE, and $435 for an F3. The 1982 price for the FG was $322, but major retailers advertised it for as low as $185 (about $560 in 2022 dollars). (It’s worth noting that when the FG-20 replaced the FG in 1985, the Program and OTF flash features were gone, transplanted to the high-end Nikon FA.) It also offers off-the-film (OTF) flash metering, a feature borrowed from the pro-level F3. The FG was the first Nikon camera to offer a fully-automatic “program” mode, which set both shutter speed and aperture in stepless increments.
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