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I have been looking at getting a Nikon Fm3A to use with my Fuji 645. I would like to know if some of you who own one could give me some feedback on what you think.
To me it seems to have everything I want and nothing I do not want.I shoot a lot of barns and my Fuji gives me nice prints of these structures, but I need 35mm to take pictures of things around the structures. My Fuji is not cost effective for grab shots. I have a digital, but for BW I like 35mm.
just came across this post while browsing and I myself own a Nikon FM3a. I love this camera on ever level, the only thing I wish it had that would make it the most perfect manual SLR would be spot metering. Other then that its great, if you want to email me I have some examples
No spotmeter that is the one draw back. On the Contax camera I had I used spotmetering all the time. Monte Johnson.
Never needed it myself, the center-weighted metering on the FM3a may be old-fashioned, but it is reliable. Some of the Contaxes, notably the Aria have had persistent over/under exposure problems with some of its metering functions. One other thing to keep in mind is that the FM3a will be working long after that spotmeter-equipped 167MT or Aria have bit the dust forever.
I never had a problem with my Contax Aria. At the time I shot slide film alot so I used the spot meter, but I agree using cameras with center-weight meters are very dependable. Monte Johnson.
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