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The photographer would adjust the shutter speed to freeze or blur motion and/or the lens aperture f-stop to control depth of field (focus) until the needle was centered between two pincer-like brackets. The FT's exposure control system was a "center-the-needle" system using a galvanometer needle pointer moving vertically at the lower right side of the viewfinder to indicate the readings of the built-in, open aperture, TTL, full-scene averaging, cadmium sulfide (CdS) light meter versus the actual camera settings.
#NIKKORMAT FT SERIAL NUMBERS BY YEAR MANUAL#
The Nikkormat F-series had a shutter speed ring concentric with the lens mount, unlike Nippon Kogaku's other manual focus SLRs with a top mounted shutter speed dial.
#NIKKORMAT FT SERIAL NUMBERS BY YEAR PLUS#
The FT used a metal-bladed, vertical travel, focal plane shutter with a speed range of 1 to 1/1000 second plus Bulb and flash X-sync of 1/125th second. This was larger and heavier than most competing amateur level SLRs of the mid-1960s, such as the Asahi ( Honeywell in the USA) Pentax Spotmatic of 1964, but the quality of the internal components gave the FT strength and durability.
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The FT had dimensions of 95 mm height, 146 mm width, 54 mm depth and 745 g weight. The unmetered version was designated "Nikkormat FS." It was available in two colors: black with chrome trim and all black. The Nikkormat FT was an all-metal, mechanically (springs, gears, levers) controlled, manual focus SLR with match-needle exposure control, manufactured in Japan from 1965 to 1967. Nikkormat FT SLR camera with Fisheye-NIKKOR 1:5,6 f=7,5mm and finder It also explains why all settings are on the mount rings. Using only one moving contact presumably led to higher reliability. The film sensitivity (speed) and the shutter speed combine their values on one ring, while the aperture determines the relative position of the second ring. In the Nikkormat there is only a single resistor and a single moving contact: the resistor is on one ring and the contact on another of the concentric rings around the lens mount. In many cameras the three user settings each have a separate resistor with a moving contact. The light meter indicates current whose value depends on the amount of light, and three user settings: aperture, shutter speed, and film sensitivity (film speed). 1 Note on the Nikkormat metering system.
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