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Yorkville and Summerhill in Early March with a Nikkormat EL.

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 I was invited on to an in depth Gen X photography Podcast on the subject of Everything Nikkormat   and had a blast. With that, I had to pull out one of my Nikkormats for a spin, choosing the EL, testbed for Nikon for emerging technologies like battery operated shutters and aperture priority, bleeding edge for the early 1970s.  The EL is different than the mechanical Nikkormats in form factor featuring conventional controls, and the battery, the 4SR44 is located under the mirror in the mirror box. Not an easy place to get at when replacing the battery, but it's more protected from temperature swings.  Overall the EL is a great camera, if you're a Nikkormat fan, if you can find one with decent electronics (they are over 50 years old at this point), they can be a nice workhorse, if their mechanical counterparts aren't your cup of tea ergonomics wise.  Fomapan 400 and 510 Pyro is an interesting combination, I had three rolls in this batch, one from the R5 las...
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The Leica R5 Test Roll

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 I'm doing this ass backwards, I should have posted this back in April prior to the March photowalk as this was the first roll through my Leica R5. The big question, why the R5, and not the R7?. Simple answer, the R5 only needs a pair of SR44 batteries, the R7 needs twice as many. Two, I was looking for something around the same age as my R6.  For those not familiar, the Leica R5 is a very well featured manual focus SLR with a battery operated shutter, with full manual metering, aperture priority, shutter priority and program modes. Compared to a Nikon FE2, the R5 is a more complex beast roughly the same size. While Nikon went for simplicity with  centre weighted metering and robustness, Leica loaded up on features like a built in diopter and both spot metering and their version of Matrix metering. On this little self directed wander I exclusively used spot metering in full manual mode and aperture priority. It pays to familiarize yourself with the R5 before using, it's n...
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