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The strongest reason presents by the FM-10 or the FE-10 is the Nikon F-mount. Other than some specialized lenses like the OP Nikkor, extreme Wide Fisheye lenses and some exotic super telephoto lenses, It allows virtually any modern optic made by Nikon to be used on the two cameras. The word, 'Modern' is defined here as 'AI' (not 'artificial intelligence'), it is a technical term for a refined method developed by Nikon in 1977 to allow automatic maximum aperture indexing of the lenses once it mounts onto a AI capable camera body to provide maximum brightness inside viewfinder for the convenience of focusing and picture composing. All modern Nikon optics (or any third party lenses) are AI in nature. |
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Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5-4.8 (Optional Standard Zoom Nikkor) |
The zoom Nikkor lens is a dual rings design type. Light, compact and reasonably well-finished. Strangely, this lens was not even found in the official Nikon site in Japan. The version in Japan site was a f3.5-f4.5 version while this lens has an even smaller aperture at the 70mm setting of f4.8 ! The variable aperture means when the lens is at 35mm, the effective maximum aperture of the lens will be f3.5, while it will be reduced to f4.8 when the zoom setting is extended to 70mm. There is a green and yellow aperture index each represents the focal length of either aperture at 35mm or at 70mm (So dies the infra-settings of the focal length is shifted). The macro is beyond the closest focusing of 0.5m. This zoom lens, as with any Series-E lenses or the autofocus Nikkor, does not provide a meter coupling shoe on the aperture ring. With the FM-10, sadly to say the ADR (Aperture Direct Readout) Scales provided on the aperture ring cannot be utilized as the FM-10 has omitted the ADR feature in the camera, thus, no aperture readout inside the viewfinder.
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Recommended links to understand more technical details
related to the Nikkor F-mount and production Serial Number:
http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-153.html by: my
friend, Rick Oleson
http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/lhhansen/photo/fmount.htm by: Hansen,
Lars Holst
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/nikonfmount/lens2.htm
http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html
W A R N I N
G: The
New G-SERIES Nikkor lenses have no
aperture ring on the lens, they CANNOT ADJUST APERTURES
with any of these manual focus Nikon
FE series SLR camera models; please ignore some portion of the content contained
herein this site where it relates.
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An 'AI' modified older version of 135mm Auto-Nikkor lens C) which should not have any problem to provide proper metering function with either FM-10 or the FE-10. Current modern autofocus lenses ? Here are two illustrations, one with the 28mm f1.4 AF-D (D) and another with a superwide 16mm f2.8 AF-D Fisheye Nikkor (E) ! I am not so sure whether the new and steaming hot AF-S or the AF-I lenses can be used on these bodies, but since you should know any of those lenses could easily worth half of dozen or more of these bodies featured here, I think any owner of those exotic optic should be wise enough to 'protect' their investment.
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Although both FM-10
and FE-10 are bundled with a compact 35-70 f3.5-4.8 zoom lens as standard, the small
(and variable in accordance with focal length) aperture are just too restrictive
for a budding new talent to try everything out. There are probably million of used
lenses such as the 50mm f1.4 AI Nikkor lens or the 35mm Nikon Series-E lenses for you to choose from, from ultrawides,
telephotos or specialized lenses like Perspective Control (PC) Nikkor or the famed
micro-Nikkors. Well, personally, if money is a concerned, you can omit the standard
zoom lens and with the money saved, you can look for a Nikon series E 28mm and 135mm f2.8 telephoto lens. If you have a little extra to spare,
substitute the Series E to the Nikkor 28mm f2.8 which has some fantastic feature
like CRC (Making it the closest focusing Nikkor wideangle) and the 135mm may be substituted
with either a AI-spec 105mm f2.5 or a 135mm f2.8.
But again, that sound like a carrot because other than older versions that may still
can be found in the used market, prices are real stiff and could easily fetched the
cost of a or more of these camera bodies.
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