{"id":3317,"date":"2012-05-06T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/05\/06\/going-old-schoo-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:25","slug":"going-old-schoo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3317","title":{"rendered":"Going Old School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15845,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Nikkormat#The_Nikkormat_EL-series&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Nikkormat&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>We were out cruising around this afternoon hitting up thrift stores after our Cinco de Mayo lunch and found this at one of the area Goodwill stores for $25. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nikkormat-EL-006.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nikkormat-EL-006.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikkormat#The_Nikkormat_EL-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It is a Nikon Nikkormat EL-W<\/a> 35mm single lens reflex. I had always wanted a Nikon SLR in my younger days but ended up going the Canon route because it was a bit cheaper. While I have now have a Canon A-1, a Canon F-1 (Lake Placid Olympics),&nbsp; and a Canon EOS 7n among my assorted cameras, this is my first Nikon of any sort.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the brassing on the camera body, it is in good shape. The shutter seems to work fine, all the controls work, and it just needs a new battery to see if the metering works. Fortunately the battery is a standard alkaline 6 volt camera battery and not one of the old mercury batteries.<\/p>\n<p>While digital has captured the photo world, there is still something about using film that appeals to me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were out cruising around this afternoon hitting up thrift stores after our Cinco de Mayo lunch and found&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3813],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-film-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7961,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}