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* [https://www.butkus.org/chinon/canon/canon_ft/canon_ft.htm Canon FT manual] at Mike Butkus's [https://www.butkus.org/chinon/ OrphanCameras.com]
 
* Photography in Malaysia's [http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/ftql/index.htm FT page]
 
* Photography in Malaysia's [http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/ftql/index.htm FT page]
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* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/camerawiki/52631297877/in/pool-camerawiki/ Canon FT & booster meter advertisement in the September, 1966, ''Popular Photography''] soon after launch (Vo, 59, No. 3; page 43)
 
* [http://www.luistriguez.es/fotos/cameras/canonft/index_canonft.htm Canon FT QL] by luis triguez
 
* [http://www.luistriguez.es/fotos/cameras/canonft/index_canonft.htm Canon FT QL] by luis triguez
 
* [http://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/film62.html FTQL] at Canon Camera Museum
 
* [http://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/film62.html FTQL] at Canon Camera Museum

Revision as of 15:06, 24 January 2023

Canon introduced the FT QL in March 1966, a year after the pellicle-mirrored Canon Pellix. Unlike the Pellix models, however, the FT QL had a normal quick-return reflex mirror (which could be locked in the up position) and offered stopdown TTL metering. The camera featured the FL mount, and could thus be used with FL mount and FD mount lenses (though FD lenses needed to be stopped down for metering like FL lenses). Standard lenses included the FL 58mm f/1.2 and the FL 50mm f/1.4 II, and possibly also the FL 50mm f/1.8.

The FTb released in 1971 was very similar (both functionally and aesthetically) to the FT QL, but was upgraded to the FD mount with associated open-aperture TTL metering, and a hot shoe flash connection.


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