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[pleaseworknow1]

I just received an old nikkormat FT2 from my grandma, and I want to learn how to use it. Everything works I'd assume, I haven't bought film or anything, and I've never used a film camera before. 

 

What film should I buy for it, and what type of lenses might be nice? I want to get some with the cyber monday and black friday deals hopefully.

[Merco_61]

For the meter to work, you need a SR-44 silver-oxide battery.

A good monochrome film to start out with is Ilford HP5 or Kodak Tri-X. They are both ISO 400/27° (or in the old nomenclature ASA 400, 27 DIN). They are quite forgiving when it comes to getting something usable, even if the technique isn't there yet. Colour depends on what you can get locally, it will take any 35 mm film in the 135 format.

The lenses need to have the rabbit-ears that were standard on all manual focus F-mount lenses. AF-lenses will mount, but they won't couple to the meter. G-type lenses without an aperture control ring aren't usable at all as there is no way to control the aperture. I have a blog post up here about what Nikkors were exceptional optically.