Film Transport Functions Film advance operation at the completion of each exposure is accomplished via the single-stroke advance lever provided at the upper right of the camera body.
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The lever, when stroked through a full 135°, performs the functions of advancing the film one frame, cocking the shutter, advancing the frame counter to the next graduation, and freeing the shutter release for the next exposure. As the lever is moved to the 20° standoff position, the red meter ON index is revealed and power is applied to the camera's circuitry. You may compared with the Nikkormat FTn site, I have added a little extra there. |
The Nikkormat FT3 features a precision film transport mechanism that maintains film flatness within narrow tolerances for the sharpest exposures.
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As the film is advanced with each stroke of the lever provided, it travels over/between precision-ground guide rails that serve to position the film emulsion surface exactly over the film gate. |
Aiding the two sets of guide rails in assuring film flatness are the film roller and the precision-finished film pressure plate, both attached to the interior of the camera back.
* Please use the main reference map for cross reference.
Positioned within the rear of the body, and coupled to the film advance lever, is
the film take-up spool that winds the film emulsion-side-out to compensate for the
film's natural tendency to curl. Film feed to the take-up spool is precise via the
sprocket roller provided between the spool and the film gate; this roller has sprockets
at either end to engage the upper and lower perforations on the film, and thus provides
smooth feed.
Additional elements of the film transport/control system are as follows:
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Under demanding photographic situations such as close-up photography, precise subject-to-film distance must often be measured to ensure the best results. With the Nikkormat FT3, this operation can be easily performed using the film plane indicator provided on the upper right of the camera body. |
Positioned precisely in
the film plane, and 46.5mm from the front surface of the lens mounting flange, the
indicator mark helps a lot to equip the FT3 for certain precision photographic situations.
Note the mark at the illustration bellow.
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An additive-type frame counter directly coupled to the film advance mechanism in the FT3. With each stroke, the counter advances one graduation to show the number of frames exposed. Numbers are provided at every second frame from 0 to 36, with 12, 20 and 36 in red for recognition. The counter does not operate during rewind, and it resets to "S" (two frames before "0") as the camera back is opened to remove the film cartridge. |
Film Rewind Button/Crank.
When all frames on the roll have been exposed, rewinding is necessary before the
camera back can be opened, and film changed. By simply depressing the rewind button
on the baseplate of the camera body, the film advance mechanism is disengaged for
the start of rewind operation via the fold-out crank at the upper left. The knob,
to which the crank is attached, is engraved with an arrow denoting the direction
to rotate for film rewinding. After a new roll of film is loaded into the camer~,
the first advance stroke of the film advance lever will reset the rewind button for
normal operation.
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The first lesson to handle a Nikkormat is to locate a lever to open the camera back. |
It is not like the usual way of spring open by using the rewind crank as with other Nikons. It used the camera back latch instead. A light-tight closure of the camera back is a must for top performance, and the solid latching mechanism of the FT3 ensures this condition at all times. Spring-loaded, the camera back latch at the lower left end of the camera makes for easy opening of the camera back (by simply pressing the latch downward, the back springs open), yet is secure against accidental release.
Viewing/Metering Part One & Part Two
Mechanism around the F-mount
The Copal Square shutter and relative functions
Film Transport | Flash Photography | Spec
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Fisheye-Nikkor Lenses - Circular | Full Frame | Ultrawides Lenses - 13mm15mm18mm20mm | Wideangle Lenses - 24mm28mm35mm |
Standard Lenses - 45mm 50mm 58mm | Telephoto Lenses - 85mm105mm135mm180mm & 200mm |
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Special Application lenses:
Micro-Nikkor Lenses - 50mm~55mm -60mm 85mm -105mm 200mm Micro-Zoom 70-180mm
Perspective Control (PC) - 28mm 35mm PC-Micro 85mm
Dedicated Lenses for Nikon F3AF: AF 80mm f/2.8 | AF 200mm f/3.5 EDIF
Depth of Field Control (DC): 105mm 135mm
Medical Nikkor: 120mm 200mm
Reflex-Nikkor Lenses - 500mm 1000mm 2000mm
Others: Noct Nikkor | OP-Nikkor | UV Nikkor 55mm 105mm | Focusing Units | Bellows-Nikkor 105mm 135mm
Nikon Series E Lenses: 28mm35mm50mm100mm135mm | E-Series Zoom lenses: 36~72mm75~150mm70~210mm
MF Zoom-Nikkor Lenses: 25~50mm | 28~45mm | 28~50mm | 28~85mm | 35~70mm | 36~72mm E | 35~85mm | 35~105mm | 35~135mm |
35~200mm | 43~86mm | 50~135mm | 50~300mm | 70~210mm E | 75~150mm E | 80~200mm | 85~250mm |
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Recommended links to understand
more technical details related to the Nikkor F-mount and production Serial Number:
http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-153.html by: my friend, Rick Oleson
http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/lhhansen/photo/fmount.htm by: Hansen, Lars Holst
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/nikonfmount/lens2.htm
http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html
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HIURA Shinsaku ® ; Nikomat ML, Japan,
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* Credit: A
Great thanks to Mr Denis Pleic for his volunteering
effort to reedit content and and patching some grammatical mistakes found in this
section of the PIM site. Miss
Rissa (Marketing) & Edward
(Techical) of Shriro Malaysia, distributor of Nikon cameras in Malaysia, in providing
so many useful inputs to make this site possible. Mr Hong,
Ipoh for lending me his FT2 to take some of the images used in this site. This site
is created for his eldest son, Yuen who has picked up his father's hobby and
the FT-2. My friend, John Walls from Florida, US for his images of the FTn
body and the Zoom Nikkor
43-86mm.
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