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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. Make a user account when checking out.Nikon is the brand of camera I am most fond of, and the one I regularly shoot in my everyday life.
Ken Rockwell has one of the best guides with visual explanations, so if you’d like to know more, I recommend reading his article.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. 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. 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.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.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.
I honestly can’t even remember which shots were done with which. 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.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.So with that in mind, each of the images below could have been shot with any of the 3 cameras here. They perfected the optical formulas of their primes over half a century ago.
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. But I promise you, it doesn’t matter which body shot which image, you’d never know the difference.This is a Nikomat ELW 35mm SLR camera sold between the years 19.
There’s really no logical reasoning behind it. About a year later, I came across another EL2 in equally bad condition, and I didn’t even bother putting any film through it as the viewfinder was messed up pretty badly.As my Nikon collection grew, I always had it in the back of my mind to get another EL2. As a result, I ended up selling it in an effort to get a better example of a working film Nikon SLR. Sure, I had a few film cameras as a kid, but nothing even remotely serious, and nothing that could prepare me for what was to come.That EL2 was in good operating shape, but was cosmetically very rough. At that time, I knew very little about Nikon’s film SLRs and only chose the EL2 because it was in my price range and that I knew I could use it’s lens on my Nikon DSLR.I knew nothing about camera repair, or Sunny 16, or anything about film for that matter. Sadly, I sold mine and have been regretting it ever since!I picked up a Nikon EL2 in the spring of 2014 in what started out as general curiosity of what it might be like to shoot film in the digital age.
To date, I still haven’t located a good enough condition EL2 in my price range, but I did stumble upon this Nikomat ELW. The bargain gods had different plans however. Its like an FE in the body of a Nikkormat (actually, that’s exactly what it is).
The ring around the shutter speed selector and film speed dial are made of metal with deep knurls that are robust and easy to turn.I could talk about how well the ELW was made all day, but the signature feature was it’s electronic shutter and aperture priority auto exposure system. Both the EL and EL2 have a unique battery check button on the rear of the camera which was not found on any other Nikon SLR.Other than small parts like the tip of the wind and self timer levers, there’s almost no plastic on this camera. All Nikkormats have vertically traveling metal blade shutters that were very accurate and in the case of the ELW, were stepless, meaning if the meter detected that a shutter speed of 1/612th of a second was needed, that’s what you’d get. They did not settle for a shutter made of cloth.
The meter on the ELW is as good as any auto exposure camera made in the decades following it’s release. The design and feature set of the first EL/ELW extended to the Nikon EL2 in 1977, and the Nikon FE in 1978. Again, they weren’t ones to rush to market with a new feature, so by the time they were ready to venture into the world of an electronic shutter with auto exposure, you bet they made sure it worked properly.And work it did.
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