First time owner of a 35mm Camera

"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" writes:

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:


I believe all the Nikkormats had vertical shutters. The Ft, which was
quite early, is described as having a vertical shutter and 1/125 sec
flash sync in multiple online sources, for example. I remember the FTN
as having 1/125 sync as well, and I believe that was always a sign of
a vertical shutter.

Yes. I think the Ft was the first. It's predecssor was the Nikkorex F, which
was made by Mamiya for Nikon. I believe the shutter was made by Copal.

The Nikkormat Ftn, was an Ft with center weighted metering. This matched the
metering of the Photomic Ftn finder on the F.

The same shutter was used in all the Nikkormats (Ft, FTn, Ft2, Ft3) and an
electronicaly timed version was used in the EL and EL2.

If not the same, very similar shutters were used in the FM and FE.

They did move faster; sync at 1/200 and then 1/250th.

The cameras with curtain shutters (F/F2/F3) had a top flash sync of 1/90th.

The F at least was 1/60, which was the common standard on all the
horizontal cloth-curtain bodies I've owned (Miranda Sensorex, Leica M3,
Pentax Spotmatic) and many I've read up on or examined.

The F3 had 1/80 sync speed according to multiple online references (I
never owned one).

I think the F2 initiated the 1/80 sync speed, but I never owned one of
those, either, and online references aren't quite as clear to my eyes
(photos of F3 shutter speed dials are pretty clear).
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