The camera shown is my personal Olympus OM-10, this camera is very special to me due to it being my first ever film SLR, and I’ve had it for just over 2 years now and here’s my review of it.
The Olympus OM-10 was released in June 1979 as a hobbyist camera that anyone body can use, being released after the professional Olympus OM-1 which I have also owned but have now sold. The OM-10 was Olympus’ attempt at reaching a much larger audience creating a quality interchangeable lens system for anybody to use. They achieved this my initially leaving out manual capabilities, this way new users couldn’t get confused by being thrown into the deep end but instead only had aperture priority. Aperture priority for those who don’t know, means the camera uses the onboard metering system to choose the shutter speed but let’s the user choose the aperture and ISO, so let’s say I had F/1.8 the camera would work out the shutter speed for the perfect exposure, but if you then changed the aperture to F/16 the camera would change the shutter speed accordingly to get thr correct exposure. However if you wanted to use a manual mode you had a plug in manual adapter which I own but never use because it’s quite relaxing not having to worry about the exposure and only focus on the composition of the photograph.
Another amazing thing the OM-10 did was link in perfectly with the other OM lens systems such as the OM-1 and the OM-2 at the time which where two professional camera bodies. The reason why this was so spectacular was because if you were using the OM-10 all the lenses and accessories wouldn’t go to waste if you upgraded to the professional bodies because they all ran from the same OM camera system.
The only problem I’ve had with the OM-10 is that it has a electronic shutter, this isn’t a massive issue but the only problem with is, the only ready available batteries compatible are LR44 button batteries, now these are good but tend to become weaker as they loose power rather than just die, so even though the meter might work with a older set of LR44s the shutter might not which is an issue I have had.
All in all my experience with the OM-10 has been more than positive and I would recommend it too anyone who’s looking to start out with film photography given it’s very reliable and very forgiving aperture priority system.
Now I’m not a professional reviewer but that’s just my opinion of the camera with a couple of facts sprinkled in, thank you for reading! 🙂
Casual 35mm 