I’m so excited. I’ve always been curious about shooting film on an SLR. I had a film point and shoot growing up (as did everyone) and it was easy peezy – point, click, wind up, repeat. But to me this is a whole different ball game. That being said, let me introduce my new little darling. Say hello to my new yet old Nikon EM 35mm film camera made in 1979 (which classifies it as vintage – woot woot!) and sold for $231 at the time. It was designed to be entry level for shooters new to the “complicated world of film shooting” and was targeted at women (thank you very much).

It took me a long while to find this camera – there’s a lot of junk out there which I had to filter through – and I didn’t want to spend a ton of money being that I’m just figuring this whole thing out – so I was so excited when I found it. It came with it’s original camera manual and also came with the original 50mm 1.8 glass lens that fits perfectly on my D700. My current lenses also fit on this film camera just as well (one of many reasons why i love Nikon – backward forward compatibility!).

Enough of the blah blah blah – Take a look at my pretty baby:

Now on to serious business. I already bought a bunch of film and I’ve been shooting away, learning how to use my new (yet old) camera. Since there’s no viewfinder (I’ve caught myself many a time looking for one) I have to take things like exposure compensation and film ISO seriously (ugh), I need to understand what a micro prism ring is (huh?) and I need to make sure I load the darn film correctly (and then figure out how to unload it…..umm) amongst many other things. I have also on many occasion forgotten to “wind” my film before taking the next shot which as a professional photographer, is quite embarrassing (hiding my face in shame).

While you will not see a full blow wedding taken strictly with film from me anytime in the near future, I do plan to use this camera during my wedding portrait sessions and engagement sessions once I see how my first roll of film comes out.
Who knows ..I might love it so much it might drive me to become a vintage film camera junkie…….I already have my sights set on another camera once I figure this one out…….

So you can expect an all film blog post from me sometime soon!