The Canon FTb is a 35mm single-lens reflex camera manufactured by Canon of Japan from March 1971. It features a Canon FD lens mount, and is also compatible with Canon's earlier FL-mount lenses in stop-down metering mode. Launched alongside the top-of-the-line F-1, the FTb was the mass-market camera in the range.
The FTb was primarily intended to be an advanced amateur camera, offering many of the same features and same build quality as the F-1, b...
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The Canon FTb is a 35mm single-lens reflex camera manufactured by Canon of Japan from March 1971. It features a Canon FD lens mount, and is also compatible with Canon's earlier FL-mount lenses in stop-down metering mode. Launched alongside the top-of-the-line F-1, the FTb was the mass-market camera in the range.
The FTb was primarily intended to be an advanced amateur camera, offering many of the same features and same build quality as the F-1, but without the option of interchangeable prisms, focusing screens, or motor drives. The Canon FTb was released at a retail price of 35,000 yen for the camera body ($99 USD; or $500 in 2008 dollars).
The FTb has an all-mechanical horizontally travelling focal plane shutter with timed speeds from 1/1000 to 1 second and bulb. The FTb has rubberized silk shutter curtains rather than the more durable but more expensive titanium curtains found on the F-1.
It offers a 10 second self timer, as well as mirror lock-up.
The meter is of the 12% (1/9)...
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