My parents had a strange assortment of cameras including a Poloroid OneStep, a Kodak Ektralite, a circa 1960’s Agfa 35mm Rangefinder, and a 1970s vintage Yashica 35mm SLR. I played with all of them every chance I got, probably destroying or wasting fifty or more dollars of film throughout my childhood. But when I was around 12-years-old, my uncle gave me a Nikon EM with a 50mm prime lens. It might have been an issue of timing but; somehow, THIS camera made sense to me and started a life-long interest in photography that lasts to this day.
