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Matt shares his 5 top tips for using the Nikon FE2! Find out a few useful tricks and gimmicks for handling your Nikon FE2.
How to Shoot Double Exposures with the Nikon FE2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0V44RJIpLc
Shooting Film with the Nikon FE2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl-D1Z8A4X8
You'll learn about:
* Using a UV Filter
* Understanding the Light Meter System
* Finding out How to Shoot a Mutliple-Exposure
* & More!
WATCH NEXT: How to Load the Nikon FE2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eEeztPViM
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all right how's it going everybody it's
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Matt here again from filter grade and
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today we're gonna be going over five
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quick tips for using the nikon efi -
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especially when you get started so let's
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just go ahead and jump into it the first
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step is gonna be to get a UV filter you
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can get these usually I always get mine
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whenever I get a lens that either comes
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with it or I just try and make a deal to
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get it with it and essentially it just
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helps with the UV light so that you're
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not always over exposing the photos and
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things like that it's super easy once
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it's on the camera you don't have to do
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anything with it but make sure it's
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clean when you put it on the camera and
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then it'll just help to make sure the
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photos aren't overexposed all the time
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which is really helpful especially when
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you're first learning um there's like
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meter system which is gonna be my second
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tip so when you're looking inside the
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camera right here you'll see along the
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left side there's a light meter system
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you can if you press down halfway on the
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shutter button right here you'll see a
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little lever flicker and depending on
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what you're looking at it's gonna be
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different because it's checking out what
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light and so essentially you want to
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match the red lever to whatever lever
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the black or green lever those different
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kind of colors but depending on your
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camera but you want to match the red
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lever with the black line so that it's
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correctly exposed and to do that you'll
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change your red lever by you know
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changing the shutter speed if you change
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your aperture and then try it again
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that'll also change the lighting
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obviously because it's changed how much
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light is being led in so always try and
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set your aperture test the light by
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pressing the shutter halfway and then
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adjust your settings as you need to and
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then when you're ready go ahead and take
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your photo unwind it okay so one thing I
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forgot to mention about the light meter
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system that
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kind of kind of prevented me to even use
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it when I first started out is the fact
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that you need to have a battery in your
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camera for it to work so when I
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originally started I would just put the
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camera on B mode which is just no
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battery in my eyes I don't know the
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actual turn port but whatever the
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lighting is it'll kind of just read it
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and do it automatically but if you want
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your light meter system to work so that
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you can take you know accurate fully
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accurate photos just get a coin or use
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your nail or key or something
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unscrew this and then replace it with
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one of these batteries there lr44
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batteries you can get them on Amazon or
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I got this at my camera store so a lot
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of them will have them there too as well
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but moving on the third tip is gonna be
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to use a flash with your Nikon fp2 a lot
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of times people stick to point and
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shoots if they want to use a flash with
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a film camera but in my opinion I think
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if you add a flash onto a camera like a
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Nikon fe2 or you know any of the Canon
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series cameras you're gonna get higher
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quality results just because of the
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lenses us but even you know especially
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with Leica cameras if you slap up if you
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saw the flash on it it's it's always
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gonna kind of make your photos more
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contrasty and almost look like clear but
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with a little bit of grain so kind of
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like digital style with flash but with
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that nice film grain and I think it's
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always good I'll throw up some of my um
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my my photos with flash with the Nikon
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mp2 here just so you can get an example
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of them
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okay so the next step when you're
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getting started with using a Nikon FD -
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it's going to be to shoot double
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exposures to do this we have a tutorial
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which I'll link in the description below
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it's super simple all you have to do is
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take your photo so click on the shoulder
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once and while you're getting ready to
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wind it hold down on this lever right
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here you can see it right there hold
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down on that and advanced and you can
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see it's still on number two so if you
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wanted it to be a double exposure you
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shoot it now but if you want to take
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multiple exposures meaning like three or
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more you can take your photo hold it
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whines I'm still on number three take a
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photo hold it wine I'm still on number
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three take a photo and so on and so
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forth and so this is really beneficial
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that you're trying to take kind of more
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artistic photos or if you have like kind
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of a ghostly photo reminder you know any
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any fun experiments you want to do with
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double double exposures it's always just
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good to know how to do it so that when
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you're ready you know how to do it so
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moving forward we're gonna go to our
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fifth topic our fifth tip and that is
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going to be how to use the a and the B
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on the shutter speed lever so when
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you're looking at the camera you might
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be wondering a little bit about what the
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B the a and the M 250 mean I'm honestly
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not too sure about the M 250 and I've
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never used it before but for B I used
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that when I don't have a battery like
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Alice if others I was talking about
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before
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because it will kind of just take in
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whatever light is there and make make as
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fast of a photo as it can without the
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battery because you still can use
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the camera without the battery it's just
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the light meter inside of the camera
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won't work and if you press down on the
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button in the middle the little silver
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button you can spin out of feed and go
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all the way to the other side which is a
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and if you notice a is beyond 4000 which
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is the highest shutter speed on this
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camera so the only time I'll ever use it
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is if I'm trying to shoot directly into
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the sunlight or if it's really really
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bright out maybe if there's snow or if
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I'm on the beach or something like that
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this will help with kind of capturing
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that super super bright light and I
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always just kind of keep this in mind
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because when I'm looking at the light
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meter inside my camera it might be
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telling me somewhere around 4,000 2,000
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or 4,000 but if you just bump it up to
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the Eddy
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it'll kind of compensate and get a
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better exposure so that's super helpful
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so those are my five quick tips if you
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have any questions feel free to leave a
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comment below and let me know what you
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think of the nikon fe - so anyways have
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a good one peace out
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