Holy cow, my Photomic FTn meter works

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Vickko

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Holy cow, my Photomic FTn meter works, and seems to be in calibration.

Not bad for a 29 year old meter.

Vick
 
I'm a Canon user from way back but I absolutely loved my Nikon FTn and that meter was a huge part of the reason why.
 
Anything that takes up that much real estate better work! ;) I'm glad. They don't make 'em like they used to, eh?
 
The F with an FTn is the best and toughest SLR ever......close behind is the Nikkormat.
 
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I have two of them that work great. I had to clean the drum resistor on one. Just opened it up and used a little contact cleaner. I live the FTN's - still do a great job for me.
 
bsdunek said:
I have two of them that work great. I had to clean the drum resistor on one. Just opened it up and used a little contact cleaner. I live the FTN's - still do a great job for me.
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I used lighter fluid on a cotton bud to clean both mine and they work perfectly.
If the meter needle is jumpy then this is the way to fix it. Very easy DIY job.
 
Quick: send it back. There's something wrong with it if it's still working today!

Personally, I'm impressed with 1950s Weston Masters, though not so much with later ones.

Cheers,

R.
 
I always disliked the metering prisms for the F, so I never bothered with them.
I got myself an old DE-1 with a small chip out of the prism for next to nothing from dugwerks about a million years ago and have used it ever since on my F.
I'm pretty sure I have at least one FTn prism still sitting in a drawer that I'll never use, so if anyone needs one lemme know and we'll talk.
 
Both my FTn meters still work. I did have them cleaned and adjusted for use with 1.5v batteries about ten years ago though. Wonderful machines, the F's, with or without the brutish looking meter finders on top.
 
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