The Film Retriever

This is a review of the Olympus OM-10. The camera came to me via a colleague at work – it belonged to her father in law and was kindly passed on to me once she found out that I use old film cameras. The Olympus OM-10 has been one of Olympus' most commercially successful models and that is because it was based on a very successful recipe – the OM-10 is a (feature) stripped down OM-2n, a very popular professional model reviewed in this blog. It maintained the small size and compatibility with the Zuiko system, stuck with the aperture priority mode which was so very popular in the early eighties and offered the optional 'Manual Adaptor' that could offer full manual operation. And most importantly, it uses the highly regarded OTF plane metering system of the OM-2n. These features made the OM-10 a very attractive offer, especially if you think that it was competitively priced – Olympus sold these cameras by millions. Top plate is clean and simple The size of t...