![]() ![]() Sadly, I sold mine and have been regretting it ever since! My Thoughts The Nikon EL2 was the first classic Nikon I ever owned. Shutter: Focal Plane Vertical Metal BladeĮxposure Meter: Center-Weighted metered TTL CdS meterīattery: 6V PX28 alkaline or silver-oxide The ELW was the black version of the earlier EL model and added support for the AW-1 automatic winder which was capable of up to 2 frames per second, otherwise the ELW and EL are identical models. Examples sold here in America are identical in every way, except they were given the name “Nikkormat”. The “Nikomat” name signifies this was a Japanese market camera sold outside of the United States. This is a Nikomat ELW 35mm SLR camera sold between the years 19. But I promise you, it doesn’t matter which body shot which image, you’d never know the difference. I could even sneak in some that weren’t shot with a Nikon in this review and you’d likely never know. ![]() I honestly can’t even remember which shots were done with which. So with that in mind, each of the images below could have been shot with any of the 3 cameras here. Whether you prefer an all mechanical Nikon F from the 60s, an aperture priority ELW from the 70s, an auto focus N2020 from the 80s, or a fully automatic N90s from the 90s, the reason you might choose one over the other is not going to be because of the quality of images you can make with them, but more for the features, design, and layout of the body itself. Using a 50mm lens from the 1960s is not going to have much of a noticeable difference in sharpness, color accuracy, vignetting, chromatic aberration, or any other lens characteristic than had you used a brand new 50mm made yesterday. They perfected the optical formulas of their primes over half a century ago. Nikon has made some of the best lenses of the 20th and 21st centuries. In fact, I’d argue that since you could swap most of the lenses with any Nikon body in my collection, the optical quality of each image would be identical, regardless of which body that lens was attached to. Since the lens usually has a greater impact on the outcome of a photograph than the body, each of the three models here could have shot any of the images below. Ken Rockwell has one of the best guides with visual explanations, so if you’d like to know more, I recommend reading his article. I won’t get into the nuances of which lenses are compatible with which bodies as there are already many excellent articles written by other people which explain this. Sure, there have been revisions to the mount that have confusing names like Non-Ai, Ai, Ai-S, AF, and AF-S, and not every lens is fully interchangeable with every body, but they usually can be used. One of the hallmark features of every Nikon SLR since the first Nikon F in 1959, is that Nikon has continued to use the same Nikon F-mount the entire time. Unlike other camera reviews where I show a gallery of images shot with each respective camera at the end of each review, I am doing something different here and putting the gallery at the beginning. I’ve done ‘three-fer’ reviews in the past so I thought it might be more fun (and easier) to write one review about three different Nikons from three different decades, the 70s, 80s, and the 90s. #Nikon f90x clean lcd viewfinder fullEveryone already knows how great the pro-level Nikon F1-6s or the popular pro-sumer models like the FM2 and FE2 are, yet the EM and N80 don’t get near as much time in the limelight, so I felt compelled to share my thoughts on those models.Īs my Nikon collection grows, I find that I have more and more models that are worthy of review, but what do I say? And how? I already mentioned I struggle writing full reviews for Nikon cameras, so I thought I should pick three less common models and do a single review of all three. When I do manage to find the words to review a Nikon product, it’s been one of their lesser loved models like the Nikon EM from 1979 or the N80 from 2000. Another reason is simply that so many other people have reviewed Nikon products over the years, I find it difficult to add anything that hasn’t already been said countless times. There are a couple of reasons for this, one is that my closeness to the brand causes me to struggle to find the words to review Nikon cameras in an unbiased and informative manner. So, it might seem peculiar to hear that Nikon cameras are my least favorite to write reviews for. ![]() Nikon is the brand of camera I am most fond of, and the one I regularly shoot in my everyday life. ![]()
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