11 Facts About Nikon FM10

Nikon FM10 is a manual focus 35 mm film camera sold by Nikon Corporation.

Nikon FM10 was originally intended for sale in developing Asian markets, but was later sold in Western countries too.

Nikon FM10 is a mechanically controlled manual focus SLR with manual exposure control.

The modern Nikon FM10-made AI lenses are the AF-S Nikkor, AF-I Nikkor, AF Nikkor D and Nikkor AI-S types.

Aluminum alloy chassis used in the Nikon FM10 can be traced back more than twenty-five years to the Cosina CT-1.

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Nikon FM10 fills the very bottom of the Nikon SLR line, and was introduced to meet the needs of the burgeoning South and East Asian amateur photographic markets.

Until then, Nikon FM10 cameras were world-renowned for their very high quality and durability, but were expensive.

However, the Nikon FM10 has been criticised by some for perceived low quality, attributed to its targeting of the brand-conscious nouveau riche in developing countries.

The Nikon FM10 sells steadily because of the prominent Nikon brand on its pentaprism, and for its compatibility with a wide range of new and used Nikon and third-party lenses.

In January 2006, Nikon FM10 announced that they were discontinuing the majority of their film-based camera bodies.

However, by November 2020, Nikon USA had marked the FM10 as "archived" and by mid-2022 it had been marked "discontinued" across multiple Nikon sites.