Rankings that show their axes
Don't buy off
a single number
An 8.0 earned on raw performance and an 8.0 earned on running quietly are two different machines. We score every product axis by axis, leave the breakdown on the page, and rank only by the average of it.
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Leading right now
35mm film SLRs still worth buying used
Nikon FM2
A fully mechanical shutter to 1/4000 that fires without a battery. The used SLR built to outlast its owner.
Average of 5 axes
8.3/10
- Performance
- 8.6
- Value
- 7.0
- Durability
- 9.4
- Ease of use
- 8.2
- Design
- 8.4
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- 018.3
Mechanical to 1/4000, battery only for the meter. Pays a premium for the toughness repair shops vouch for.
- 028.2
The FM2 with aperture priority. Easier to shoot, a touch more fragile once the electronics age.
- 037.9
Smallest body and the nicest viewfinder here. The mercury-cell meter needs a workaround before it's accurate.
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Categories
Each category is scored on its own axes. Appliances get judged on noise; books get judged on how current they are.
- Appliances27
Vacuums, purifiers, and the rest of the machines that run every day. We weight noise and upkeep heavily, because that's what decides whether you keep using one.
- Tech93
Earbuds, keyboards, monitors, and the accessories around them. Spec-sheet numbers matter less here than how a thing feels after four hours.
- Home20
Chairs, lighting, storage — objects that stay in the room for years. The question we score against is whether it still holds up a year in.
- Kitchen23
Countertop appliances and cookware. Cleanup effort and noise get real weight, since those are what quietly retire a machine to the cupboard.
- Outdoors20
Gear that gets rained on, dropped, and packed away wet. Durability carries more of the score here than anywhere else on the site.