Nikomat/Nikkormat FT2

Nikomat/Nikorrmat FT2

The Nikkormats are well documented cameras online a simple search will find a lot more information then I have, since I have one and see it is not yet represented on camerapedia…

(Image rights)©Kraig Haver

The Nikkormat FT2 (1975-1977) The last of the Pre-AI Nikkormat FT series bodies. Essentially an FTn with some added features.

Semi-Automatic indexing on the FT2 When attaching a lens it must be set at F/5.6 so the camera’s meter coupling pin will be aligned with the lens’s meter coupling prong (rabbit ears) above F/5.6 then you must rack the aperture ring all the way back and forth so the camera will know the maximum aperture of the lens.

Some specs:

• Die-cast aluminum alloy body
• Nikon F-mount
• Focal-plane shutter with vertical travel
• Highest X-sync 1/125 - actually 1/100 when tested on a shutter tester - all earlier Copal Square shutters are this way
• Automatic M-X switching, below 1/250, camera is in X-sync mode, above 1/250, camera is in M-sync mode
• Shutter speeds 1-1/1000 in full stops plus Bulb. Set at the base of the lens mount similar to the early Olympus OMs
• Fixed hot shoe and threaded PC terminal on the body
• ASA scale 12-1600, set by pulling lock on shutter speed adjustment tab outward, then sliding index back and forth
• TTL full aperture 60/40% centerweighted center-needle metering in the viewfinder
• Light meter cadmium sulfide powered by a 1.5 Volt Silver Oxide Battery (S76/SR44)
• Nikon Type K focusing screen(split image/micro prism/matte); can be had with Type A screen (split-image/matte)
• Depth-of-field Preview
• Mirror lockup
• Self Timer
• Weight 880g
• Dimensions 148mm X 95mm X 54mm

Links

• Nikkormat FT2 on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand

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