Nikon EM + Vivitar 2,8/28mm | Analogue camera

Nikon EM with a Vivitar 28mm 1:2.8 lens is a single-lens reflex camera (SLR) for beginners, with interchangeable lenses, for 35 mm film. It was manufactured by Nippon Kogaku KK (now Nikon Corporation) in Japan from 1979 to 1982 (available as new from dealers until about 1984). The camera was designed and introduced to the market for the growing cohort of new photographers entering the market who were buying SLRs. The EM uses a Seiko MFC-E focal-plane shutter with speeds from 1 to 1/1000 second plus B and X sync of 1/90 second. It has a height of 86 mm (3.4 in), width 135 mm (5.3 in), depth 54 mm (2.1 in) and weighs 460 grams (16 oz). Unlike most Nikon cameras of that era, it was available only in black. The EM camera does not have a fully manual exposure mode, but was designed for inexperienced photographers who could not easily master the intricacies of shutter speeds and aperture values. Significant changes were also made in the mechanical and electrical components of the EM camera to reduce production costs compared with previous Nikon cameras: dimensional tolerances were not as tight, there were no ball bearings in the film transport mechanism, and a high-quality titanium shutter was not available.