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Nikon FA s/n 5019642
Medical-Nikkor Auto 200mm/5.6 s/n 121295
Nikkor AC Unit LA-1
Nikon has long been portrayed as a conservative company, despite the fact that it has had a long and clear leadership in the professional camera market since the introduction of the Nikon F in 1959. When the Nikon FA was introduced in 1983, (along with the Nikon FE2 and FM2n) it raised the corporate image as it was truly a revolutionary camera. It will be most remembered for it's innovative metering system - an early testbed for the current and much copied 'Matrix Metering' system commonly found in many Nikon AF cameras as well as those of competitors. It was also the first Nikon camera body that had shutter priority and program automation exposure control.
This was in addition to the traditional favoured aperture priority AE and fully manual exposure control. Furthermore, TTL OTF flash metering enhanced the FA's flash capability and made the FA the most sophisticated multimode manual focus Nikon ever. To supplement the FA's immense capabilities, a host of other changes occured during the early part of the eighties. Firstly, a new line of Nikkor lenses called the AI-S (Automatic Indexing Shutter) and a new dedicated motor drive MD-15 were introduced. Depite all these, the FA still retained its backward compatibilitiy with the huge Nikon system.
