Nikon FM10 info needed.

[seany65]

No worries! What did you end up getting?

Nothing yet. I'm going to sell some of the gear I have now to minimise the pain of coughing up the money, and I can't do that until I can get to the shop I normally go to, and I can't do that until the ruddy masks we ordered a couple of weeks ago turn up.

I was going to get rid of the stuff anyway to create a bit of space, but at least now I'll have an idea of what to do with the money.

PS. Sorry for the late reply. That does seem to be a theme with me so often.😱

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I didn't recall to have problems with FG-20 focusing indoors.
I have EM instead now and it is as good as F2 for focusing. They both have split image focusing screen. I use f3.8 primes and no problem indoors.
My FTn has "running ants" focusing screen and it is kind of problematic to focus.

 

[seany65]

"Running ants focusing screen"?

 

[Huss]

"Running ants focusing screen"?

microprism is too hard to type.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Hard to type something I don't know. So, running ants is microprism? Makes no sense to me.

 

[CMur12]

The split image focusing aid is handy when there are straight lines, but I actually use the microprism more - sometimes even the matte part of the screen.


- Murray

 

[seany65]

Hmmm. I suppose the shimmer of an just out of focus microprism could remind someone of the running ants around a selection in one of the photo-editing suites?

I recently used my minolta 110 slr mk2 to take some pics of geese and ducks at a local duckpond and some of the time I found it quite hard to tell if the subjects were in focus as both halves of the split-image were in focus though not lined up. I'm wondering if I would've been better off with a microprism? Shame it doesn't have both.