Nikomat ftn manual

I love these and I think I have about 10 of these. Maybe I should have named my daughter Nikkormat. Mike Jan 03, Marcus Apr 23, The main lesson I have learned at this point is not to bother too much with my Kiev cameras, as my five Nikkormats are infinitely superior in design.

The Nikkormat is my favourite 35mm, my FT3 being highly prized. Thank you for publishing your knowledge and efforts. I have an almost mint condition FTn i picked up, however it has a strange mirror behaviour.

I would love to give it a new life, but when i shoot the camera level, it works fine, if i point the camera to the ground, it shoots fine. I heard that the spring can gum up on the mirror hinge, and applying some solvent to this may help, unfortunately, it did not help in my case. Zach Oct 16, Hi, Richard, I like your blog and nice write up about vantage Nikon cam and lenses.

I know you mentioned that unlike Nikon F,F2, this one is hard to adjust unless you take the assembly out. But I cannot find any resource on how to adjust it. Drifting by 1 stop is too much for me. I have taken out the shutter assembly, but cannot figure out what kind of adjustment i need to apply to it.

Howard Mar 31, Hi Mr. Will you be doing a detailed article on how to clean or repair the lightmeter resistor? My Nikkormats all have jumpy meters that prevent me from getting accurate readings.

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Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here This model was introduced in as successor of the Nikkormat FT by Nikon. Essentially, the camera is based on the same housing as the FT, but has a center-weighted exposure meter instead of the full frame average meter, a shutter speed indicator in the viewfinder, and a simplified process for mounting the lens.

The lenses of the Nikkormat FTN can be easily interchanged. For this purpose the camera is equipped with a Nikon F lens mount. The bayonet was first introduced in the s.

Unlike other camera brand, the bayonet was not discontinued with the introduction of an autofocus. Other makers of compatible lenses include Sigma, Tokina, Tamron and Samyang. Not all modern lenses can be used with the old film cameras.

It is necessary to focus the lens manually on the desired subject. This may at first seem like an inconvenience, but it puts both the exposure controls in the same place, and frees up the top of the camera for other things. To wit, the camera features a very large magnified frame counter where many cameras would have the shutter-speed dial, as well as a depth of field preview button that can be mistaken for a second shutter release, closer to the pentaprism.

The apparent inconvenience of the shutter-speed ring is also lessened by the fact that the shutter speed is always visible inside the viewfinder, a new feature of the FTN model.

Another reason for the camera's unusual appearance is the aperture coupling. This assembly is a ring that surrounds the lens mount, with a projecting prong. This device is a necessity of the Nikon F lens system, which reads the aperture via a slotted shoe on the lens's aperture ring. To mount a lens and meter it properly, the aperture must be set to 5. A small scale on the aperture-sensing ring confirms the maximum aperture.

This may seem complicated to photographers who are more used to later SLR's, but it is in fact a simplification from the Nikkormat FT. Another unusual feature is an external meter needle in addition to the one in the viewfinder. The manual describes this as being a convenience for use at waist-level or when mounted on a tripod. Unlike the FT, some FTN's, perhaps a majority, have a plastic grip on the advance lever, while earlier examples have the FT's lightly knurled all-metal lever.

The shutter is substantially the design which Mamiya, Yashica and Copal among others came together to design in the late 's, which was marketed by Copal as the Copal Square and first mounted by Mamiya in the Nikkorex F and store-brand derivatives. It is a fully-mechanical focal-plane shutter, with the moving elements being six metal blinds being propelled by levers, instead of continuous cloth curtains propelled by rollers.

Unlike the Nikkorex Copal Square shutter, the Nikkormat shutter seems to be made in-house, rather than by Copal, and has the levers on the mirror-box side, rather than the film side.