5/19/2023 0 Comments Nikon em 35mm![]() The industry was trying to expand out from the saturated high-end professional market and appeal to the large mass of amateur photographers who wanted to move up from compact automatic leaf-shutter rangefinder cameras to an SLR, but were intimidated by the need to learn the details of operating a traditional SLR. Because of rapid advances in electronics, the brands continually leapfrogged each other with models having new or more automatic features. Between 19 there was a shift away from heavy all-metal manual mechanical camera bodies to much more compact bodies with housings made of lighter materials and electronic automation controlled by integrated circuits. The 1970s and 1980s were an era of intense competition among major SLR brands Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Pentax and Olympus. ( March 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īeginning in 1977 with the advanced amateur Nikon FM, there was a complete overhaul of the entire Nikon SLR line. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. ![]() IX Nikkor lenses introduced in 1996 for Nikon's Advanced Photo System SLRs must not be mounted to an EM, as their rear elements will intrude far enough into the mirror box to cause damage. Nikon's most recent 35 mm film SLR lenses, the AF Nikkor G type introduced in 2000, lack an aperture control ring, and the AF Nikkor DX type (2003) with image circles sized for Nikon's digital SLRs will mount but will not function properly. ![]() The AF-S Nikkor, AF-I Nikkor, AF Nikkor D and AF Nikkor autofocus lenses are also AI types. ![]() The contemporary Nikon-made AI lenses were the Nikkor AI-S, Nikkor AI and Nikon Series E types. The EM accepts nearly all lenses with the Nikon F bayonet mount except lenses introduced in 1959, non-ai lenses will damage the lensmount, it does support the automatic indexing (AI) feature introduced in 1977. The introductory US list price for the body plus normal lens was only $231. There were also significant changes to the EM's mechanical and electrical components to reduce its production cost relative to previous Nikon cameras: dimensional tolerances weren't as tight, there were no ball bearings in the film advance mechanism, and no high-quality titanium shutter. The EM has no full manual exposure mode capability, but instead was intended to be used by inexperienced photographers who could not easily master the intricacies of shutter speeds and f-stops. Unlike most Nikons of the time, it was available only in black. The EM uses a Seiko MFC-E focal plane shutter with a speed range of 1 to 1/1000 second plus Bulb and flash X-sync of 1/90 second. The camera was designed for and marketed to the growing market of new photographers then entering the SLR buyer's market. (today Nikon Corporation) in Japan from 1979 to 1982 (available new from dealer stock until circa 1984). The Nikon EM is a beginner's level, interchangeable lens, 35 mm film, single lens reflex (SLR) camera. Manually wound, 2 frames/s with Nikon MD-E motor drive Nikon EM 35 mm camera with Nikon Series E 50 mm lens
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