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It is a perfectly usable camera and not a paperweight but if someone is selling it at €30 complete with a lens just nod and smile when they say that you can only take pictures with a smart phone today. It is their loss and your gain.
Plenty of Nikkor lenses around and the FE use common batteries that you can buy almost anywhere. No reason not to buy it since it seems to be in perfect condition.
Good luck!
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I had FE, it was working fine and making nice photos. Only one thing - mirror was little too loud for my taste (maybe my example was a dog concerning this?). I give it away as present when I got F3, but it was a good camera. Every nikon SLR that I know is good: Of course when you pay more - you get more, but they are all good  .
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30 euros seems like a good price for a good camera. Don't listen to anyone that says photography is about iPads and iPhones etc. Some people just feel the need to make others conform to the same ideas that they do. If they want to use the latest bundle of electronics, that's cool, but it seems to me that these people mix up the idea of *newer* technology, and *better* technology.
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The FE is a good camera.Buy it and shoot it.
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Its a good price for a good working FE and lens. It's a good camera for the money. Current selling price for the FE isn't very high though. Often the FE fetches the least amount of money among the FM/FE series of cameras.
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If it goes bust after having it for a while, it will make a nice door stop because spares are no longer available. But having said that they are a sturdy camera and will probably keep soldiering on long after the digital equivalents have been re-cycled.
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I love the FE -- it was my first SLR camera and I still use it regularly. It's built like a brick so it can take some knocks -- I really don't have to worry about pampering it. The mirror slap is really loud, but other than that, it really is my favorite camera. I think there are quite a number of people here on APUG who like it as well.
As for the people bringing them -- it's their loss and your gain. They're great cameras.
Rachelle
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. D. Arbus
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Unlike you I am old, but I was not into photography - nor did I appreciate these cameras, in my time. But I have immersed myself into it and have acquired a few to learn about them during their timeline with help from website like this as well as magazines of the time. But since I don't buy and sell as a business, I likely don't look at their "value" as you do except for a few items like the Canon 1VHS that I bought locally strictly because it was too cheap to pass up ($100) to sell or trade. I managed to trade it for a Pentax K 50mm f1.2 lens which to me was a fantastic ROI.
In your business, I would imagine you would evaluate the FE based on cosmetic and functionality and keep track of historical trends - such as completed listings in the auction site. I haven't looked but a fully functional black body Nikon with no scratches likely fetches more then what you paid for your. Interesting that you didn't specify the lens - especially if it is a Nikon brand. That may bring back even more then the body too.
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does his Nikon bark?
In regard to film camera prices today -- in the early 1990s I decided I needed a Nikon SLR autofocus body and purchased an N70. It cost me over $500. Recently I purchased an N70 body in nice condition for $20 and got a jewel of a Nikkor lens, a 50mm f1.4 with it. What you pay for a camera these days has no relation to its value as a shooter.
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