![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I believe this caused some consternation to left-eyed photographers, in that when they raised the camera to their left eye, the lever stabbed them in the right eye! As happily I’m right-eyed, this didn’t affect me.Ī couple of weeks ago the EL managed to catch my eye (not with the frame advance lever!) whilst sitting forlornly in the display cabinet. That is, you pull the lever out a tad to switch the camera on. Another slightly idiosyncratic feature is the frame advance lever also acts as the on/off switch. It’s quite heavy, really substantially put together, and it has a reassuring heft to it. I didn’t use this to begin with, trusting fully manual in preference. The EL was one of the first from the Nikon stable to have aperture priority, I believe. Then, I’m sorry to say the camera sat in a display cabinet for the next 12 months. I loaded up some Kodak Ultramax 400 and away I went happily snapping. Now, where to put the battery? Eventually after scouring the internet, I find that it is tucked inside the lens opening down below – very strange! In went a new battery, and everything worked perfectly. Of course, the battery had long expired, so there was a certain amount of trust that everything worked as it should. The zoom, not so much, but it’s there if I need it. In truth, I probably paid a little more than the kit was worth, but it’s a nice chunky SLR from the 70s, and I do like it. I offered what I thought was a fair price, and after a little haggling, a deal was done. It also came with a Nikkor 50mm F1.4 lens, and a Sigma zoom. It turned out to be a Nikkormat EL, in pretty good shape. Somehow, I have the reputation of someone who will buy such things. About a year ago I was contacted, via my wife, by a friend of hers whose friend (hope you’re keeping up here!) had an old camera she was looking to sell. ![]()
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