FTbeloved

[colpepper]

Bought a clean Canon FTb a few weeks back as a spare body for the FD glass and am growing to really like it. It reminds me of cameras when hair still grew on top of my head and there were corporation buses and men dug for coal.
None of the A-series asthma, about twice the size it needs to be to fit the gubbins in and made of tin. Conventional apart from the weird film trap (that actually works) and really quite compelling.

I can recommend an FTb to anyone looking for a camera to actually put film through. Brilliant in its own unspectacular way.

 

[excalibur2]

Bought a clean Canon FTb a few weeks back as a spare body for the FD glass and am growing to really like it. It reminds me of cameras when hair still grew on top of my head and there were corporation buses and men dug for coal.
None of the A-series asthma, about twice the size it needs to be to fit the gubbins in and made of tin. Conventional apart from the weird film trap (that actually works) and really quite compelling.

I can recommend an FTb to anyone looking for a camera to actually put film through. Brilliant in its own unspectacular way.

Same as the Minolta srt series...tough old cameras. I bought a FTB that needed servicing with three fd prime lenses for £10, well even after my DIY oiling the wind on/shutter gears finally gave up when the lever wouldn't complete the stroke....so it was spares screws and the rest went into the bin.