The Last Nikkormat, the FT3.
By the mid 1970s, the Nikkormat was showing its age. Built like tank, you could use it as a defensive weapon if you ran out of film but other companies like Canon were embracing plastics with their AE-1, and Olympus with their OM-1 embraced a compact design. With the introduction with the automatic indexing F mount in 1977 eliminating the need for the "indexing shuffle" Nikon was making a leap forward in camera design, only, the FM and FE weren't quite ready. The Nikkormat FT3 model which was the same as the FT2 but with the improved lens mount.
I was given this camera at a Toronto Film Shooters photowalk a year and a half ago, I think, time is losing meaning at this point by my friend and Classic Camera Revival co-host Alex Luyckx. It had a jumpy meter, fast forward to late winter/early spring, I managed to fix the meter with some electrical contact lubricant called DeOxit on the ring resistor. It's not a permanent fix but I have a lifetime supply of this lubricant so I can redo the process unitl the ring resistor is pretty much worn out.
The camera handles like any classic Nikkormat, built like a tank and designed to take a serious beating and be used in just about any environment, in this case "The Great Shutdown of 2020. Anyway sliced, you can't go wrong with Nikkormats.
Camera: Nikkormat FT3, Nikkor Ai 50 f2 lens.
Film: Rollei RPX 400, HC110 B.
![Nikkormat FT3](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49809843228_d3124ab2d2_c.jpg)
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I was given this camera at a Toronto Film Shooters photowalk a year and a half ago, I think, time is losing meaning at this point by my friend and Classic Camera Revival co-host Alex Luyckx. It had a jumpy meter, fast forward to late winter/early spring, I managed to fix the meter with some electrical contact lubricant called DeOxit on the ring resistor. It's not a permanent fix but I have a lifetime supply of this lubricant so I can redo the process unitl the ring resistor is pretty much worn out.
The camera handles like any classic Nikkormat, built like a tank and designed to take a serious beating and be used in just about any environment, in this case "The Great Shutdown of 2020. Anyway sliced, you can't go wrong with Nikkormats.
Camera: Nikkormat FT3, Nikkor Ai 50 f2 lens.
Film: Rollei RPX 400, HC110 B.
![Nikkormat FT3](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49809843228_d3124ab2d2_c.jpg)
![Wedgewood Pool_](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49805523061_687ea2b8a9_c.jpg)
![Wedgewood Pool Reflections_](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49805828967_cdc7de252f_c.jpg)
![Only Two Ways to Go Off Morrison](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49807335317_b249684421_c.jpg)
![Wedgewood Creek](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49806467163_4a1c3acd02_c.jpg)
![Auto Hauler Cars in the CN Yard](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49807005931_386f0164c9_c.jpg)
![Wall Vines on Cornwall](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49807320812_ae5be2ee00_c.jpg)
![Corooned off Playground Set](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49806452818_24e9b9d9ca_c.jpg)
![Piazza Bistro Lights_](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49808688538_413f194fdd_c.jpg)
![Hexagon Hibernating](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49809542577_d614d7f517_c.jpg)
![Lakeshore Road Between Trafalgar Road and Reynolds](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49809538732_8ee801d288_c.jpg)
![Twin Houses_](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49809236166_e547a1da0d_c.jpg)
![Artspace](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49808678108_6414e68996_c.jpg)
![Artspace II](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49809532322_fab608044c_c.jpg)
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