FA on MD12 or MD15 is THE sounds of a motor driven camera for everything you think of when you hear motor driven cameras in film or media (think the intro to Girls on Film by Duran Duran). One would think the FM2 is that’s sound but it’s a distinctly electronically controlled shutter sound and not fully mechanical like the FM.
They had very complicated electronics for their day and tended to fry out- I lost 2 that way. I still have one FA that’s going strong, and of course my FM2n and F3HP-Pro which is probably the best film SLR ever made IMO (yes I have 2 Leica R’s that I love and the F3 wipes the floor with them for event photography- gotta love that auto rewind when you are mid isle with a bride coming and you need to reload fast!)
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