grasshoppa's Full Review: Nikon FM10 35mm Film Camera
The Nikon FM10 has some good features, but along with some annoyingly frustrating ones. As a photography student, i received this camera as a gift, and sold it 2 months later on ebay. It is not a exactly a bad camera, but not the best either.
The camera offers some nice features, like the depth-of-field preview and double exposure. It also comes with a nice zoom lens if you buy the package brand new. but other than that, the rest of the features are pretty common in most SLR manual cameras.
The camera body is very lightweight, but with that come with a lower degree in the quality of construction. It is constructed using a lot of plastic; that which makes it lightweight also makes it cheap. It doesn't seem like the camera would survive the extended use that my usual camera undergoes. The reduced durability of the camera was tolerable, but what i could not tolerate was the light meter.
The light meter is not a gauge with numbers and a needle that tells the appropriate shutter speed. It is a total of three lights. A green one in the middle that lights up when the shutter speed matches perfectly with the amount of light. A red '+' will light up if there is too much light, and a red '-' lights up if there is not enough. This might sound okay reading about it, but when having to deal with it is something completely different. For example, I would want to take a picture, and there is not enough light. So i click the shutter speed down a notch and try again. Still not enough light. So down another notch. Still not enough. Now down two more notches and still not enough light. Without knowing how much the shutter speed is off, it is very difficult to match the speed according to the light meter in a timely fashion.
Another annoyance is a "safety" feature. The film lever has a plastic notch that prevents a picture from being taken when it is pushed in all the way. But when taking a picture, a natural reflex, at least for me, is to push the lever in all the way after winding the film. So along with the time that the light meter has added to your photo-session, you have the times that you've tried to take the picture, but had to pause and pull the film lever out half an inch or so. It makes taking pictures a very slow task.
Other than that, the camera works fine and produces decent pictures. It was okay as a gift, but i don't recommend spending $250 in it. That $250 can easily get one a really nice camera with basically the same features and without the hassle.
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