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Olympus OM-1 (or OM-1n) if you can stand using silver oxide batteries for the light meter. There are many other great fully mechanical options but they can be s
by frostburg 4y ago
Olympus OM-1 (or OM-1n) if you can stand using silver oxide batteries for the light meter. There are many other great fully mechanical options but they can be somewhat expensive or have issues with finding lenses. The OM-2n is also great but the shutter requires a working battery and it's actually a very complex camera internally (it does real-time aperture priority metering by measuring the light reflected by the film surface while the shutter is open, if you want it to).
A Nikkormat FT3 or Nikon FM would also be good choices, but I like the compactness of the Olympus.
- ghaff 4y agoYeah, watch out for battery requirements. Canon A-1, AE-1, F-1 are also reasonable choices. (Basically any FD lens system camera.) The trick is probably finding something that is in decent shape but not "collectible" shape. Looking through KEH's catalog is probably a good start.
- frostburg 4y agoThe issue there is that the once very affordable FD lenses are now popular among filmmakers for rehousing, which makes them a lot less affordable. Pre-AI Nikon is cheaper.