A brief
outline of the Nikon EM manual focus SLR film camera
The the Nikon EM camera
was produced by
Nikon as an automatic exposure SLR beginners camera,
the Nikon FE of the previous year was a relatively
expensive and heavy semi-pro camera and new cameras
like the Olympus OM-10 were clearly targeting the
beginner
user group. Nikon had the famous Italian industrial
designer Giorgetto Giugiaro design the exterior of
the Nikon EM and their new flagship camera, the
Nikon F3.
The Nikon EM was a simple
automated camera utilising polycarbonate in place of metal,
this created a
very light body but resulted in many existing
Nikon users seeing the camera as a "woman's" camera.
It was
clear that the existing Nikkor lenses were too
expensive, not to mention heavy, to accompany their
new lightweight beginners camera, Nikon's
response was the "E" series lenses. The "E" range
consisted of eight different lenses from
28mm to 210mm in focal length, although designed to
be produced cheaply they still offered optical
performance equal to, or surpassing, third party Nikon fitting lenses although they
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