My recent trip to Japan was my second time in the country as a tourist. Having photographed many of the sites I visited with my digital SLR during my first trip, I decided to photograph the same sites using B&W 35mm film this time around. The camera I chose to shoot with was my Nikomat EL which was purchased by my uncle during one of his trips to Japan in the early 1970′s. It became my first camera when he gifted it to me some 20 years after he purchased it, and it accompanied me back to the country from which it was purchased almost 40 years ago.
It is by far my favorite camera (rugged, solid build, great optics, and simple mechanics) and I will be posting some of the images I captured with it in the coming weeks.