NIKKORMAT FTn :1966-7 NAM VET & 2 SUB SAHARA CONFLICTS

Nikkormat FTn

Fully manual 35mm SLR

Black Body Only? Maybe once chrome?

# XXX Classified

Japan

Circa 1966-7 modern classic

This is a perfect example of why I prefer the Nikkormat to the F or F2 of similar vintage. Built like a tank and still much smaller and lighter than the more illustrious counterparts.

I have owned several from new (generally better condition than this but without the street credit) and have personal experience of this one.

This is the "Bad & the Ugly", Vietnam vet. I have the "good" on another current listing.

I have tested all the functions and everything is working as it should except the meter which was taken out by a land mine.

Shutter speeds from 1-1/1000^th second and bulb. These are accurate.

It's not a pretty sight but the inside is clean as a whistle, the shutter is snappy and it's a wonderful trophy.

The following is either the truth or a figment of my imagination. I can't remember which!

After Nam it made it's way ( in the company of psycho photo journalist, adrenalin junkie, who could not face life on the quiet side) to a major conflict in Southern Africa where it fell into my hands after psycho journalist was taken out in a fire fight. It was 1976 by then and I replaced the seals, mirror damper (well, lets say I CLA'd it) and tried to repair the meter.

A friend of mine Dr. Mario Rui Dos Santos was similtaneously on combat duty in another Southern African conflict and during a weekend pass he begged me to sell him the camera as his Leica M-1 Military Green had expired some months before after two weeks in service. I could not bear to sell it so it went back into service on loan, seconded to Captain Dos Santos. Without my permission Captain Dos Santos painted the camera with melted tyre rubber to reduce reflection. I was reunited with the camera in 1980 and, along with me, it received an honourable discharge.

This is some camera!

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