Ugh! My Nikon FE advance lever is stuck

I've tried the auxiliary release as well. I think I've messed up the timing sequence at some point, and I cannot find the way back. If I can find somebody to fix it, I'll sell it afterwards. I've had enough trouble with this camera.
 
My first FE (many years ago) (many, many years) quit working on me, and I took it back to the place I bought it. They did a quick repair on it, and it failed again a couple of days later. They wouldn't give me my money back, so I took it to a reputable repair shop in town, and they informed me the shutter was broken, and there were no replacement parts. So maybe it was of the original production run, and Nikon quit making parts for that series since they had changed the design by then. Anyway, it just became a mantle display until it was sold with the rest of my gear when I was raising cash to keep paying the rent.

I got a second one about ten years ago, and never had an issue with it. It seemed to be a very late production version. I believe I have an FE2 also, but don't quote me on that.

PF
 
Bought an FE on Ebay and while unboxing it at the Post Office could not get it to work. Someone was there "watching" me take it out of the box....really beautiful camera...told me to try taking the battery out and putting it back in. I took them out, he watched, as I checked to see if they had been put in properly. The camera was sold "as is" not functioning. Well, they had been put in upside down! When I replaced them in the camera it wound and worked like new!~$35 from what I recall....I still have the camera. By the way according to a reputed site on automatic the shutter will fire as fast as 1/4000 sec. I also have an EM and checked its shutter and it seems to work like the Nikon FE...in bright light I get two bumps when I change the aperture allowing the exposure needle to move above 1/1000 second. Also, with no batteries in the EM I read that the shutter will fire at around 1/1000 second. So much for electronic cameras without batteries! By the way the EM to get 1/1000~ the battery has to be removed. It already has a mechanical 1/90 second setting. Good luck though with your FE!
 
My FE's shutter/film advanced jammed this weekend. The camera was an ebay purchase from 12 years ago when they were almost free, and has given me great service since then and has become my favorite camera. (Glad it happened this weekend and not next as I was planning on taking it on a trip to celebrate my daughter's birthday.)

I may take the bottom plate off and see if I can get it unstuck somehow. If not, off to the repair shop it will go.

Fortunately, I bought another FE last year and also have a few Pentaxes, so I am not short of manual focus SLRs for backup.
 
Did anyone mention trying putting it on the M90 setting? I have trouble when in Auto, the camera fires and the mirror won't return and shifting to M90 seems to cure it.
 
Darthfeeble said:
Did anyone mention trying putting it on the M90 setting? I have trouble when in Auto, the camera fires and the mirror won't return and shifting to M90 seems to cure it.
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It wasn't mentioned here, but I was aware of this trick. It didn't work on mine.
 
Sorry to dredge this old thread up. I had my FE repaired around Jan./Feb. of last year by a very reputable (and expensive) shop and put maybe three rolls through it since then. I tried to load it this morning and the shutter/film advance jammed again. I am very displeased. I have emailed the shop to see what they suggest, and am awaiting a reply.
 
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