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Any Canon guru's out there? Need some help with my old FTb

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Posted on March 23, 2001 at 14:11:42
Rich Brkich
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 Well, I am a camera buff from all the ways back to high school. My trusty old Canon Ftb (about 25 years old now)has not been doing well the past few years. It started backing out pictures (look like the shutter wouldn't move) several years ago. I had a local company go over the camera and they did a nice job, but the problem still happens randomly. Does anyone know of a really, really good tech to send the camera too? I also have a F1n which is going to need a thorough cleaning and check-up as well.

I have some beatuful lenses for these cameras (mostly all cannons with great optics), like a Canon 17mm super wide angle, 300m 5.6, 50mm 1.8, a 28 to 90 2.8 Vivatar series 1, a 35mm to 70mm auto focus ... which I would love to use once again.

Rich Brkich

 

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Re: Any Canon guru's out there? Need some help with my old FTb, posted on March 23, 2001 at 14:48:39
RBP


 
I am having the same problem with my Pentax ME super.

Where are you?

I did extensive research and I am going with Bedford Camera and Video in FT Smith Arkansas. First of all ..it is close to me. Secondly...they care...they are not out to "sell you" a new camera.

It is one of those shops that Camera Buffs "hang out".

Certainly get someone close. If you choose to try Bedford, I can check up on it regularly and keep you in touch with progress through emails. They quoted me 26 days to completely replace the entire shutter mechanism with a new one(Factory) for about 110.00 I think that is fair..anmd give it a complete dissasembly and cleaning. Hell those guys use white gloves was what a Buddy told me. I do want to "make sure"..think I will pay them a personal visit tomorrow and see how the vibe is.

 

Re: Any Canon guru's out there? Need some help with my old FTb, posted on March 23, 2001 at 17:57:18
Pam
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 Not familiar with the FTb or FTbN... bit before my time, or F1 series, but I still have 2 A-1's and a T-90. Have a really bizarre 35-70 Toyo zoom with an FD mount too... huge stubby thing that takes a 72mm filter... think it's like F2.5 or something really odd (thought they only made view cameras). I probably should have traded all of that stuff in on a Contax RTS or something when Canon went ape with the EOS line. Sort of wish I could find a digital back for the A-1/T90 since I have all kinds of lenses and even the bellows for macro work, but I don't get out as much as I used to and getting film developed and then scanning it just so I can send someone a snapshot is such a huge pain, that I use a little point and shoot Olympus 450d most of the time anymore.

 

The 17mm, posted on March 23, 2001 at 22:51:36
Keith
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 Hey Rich,

Is the 17mm rectilinear? I'm in the market now to buy their 17-35 2.8L, but am considering some cheaper options if I can still go wide and not too distorted. I thought they only had 8, 14, 15, and then 20 for their EOS.

 

Re: The 17mm, posted on March 25, 2001 at 00:39:20
Rich Brkich
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 If I understand the term correctly, yes the 17mm is rectlinear. At the time (this is going back probably 20 years), this was the widest angle you could get before going fisheye.... Anyway, the 17 is a very cool lens to play and shoot pictures with...

P.S. Don't ask me anything about what cannon is offering these days... you need to keep in mind that the lenses and cameras I am familiar with are from the days before auto-everything, multi spot metering, motor drive cameras that are around these days of which I don't have a clue about (I'm not sure whether a simley or sad emotocon should go here!)

Rich Brkich

 

Re: Any Canon guru's out there? Need some help with my old FTb, posted on March 25, 2001 at 00:52:19
Rich Brkich
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 I'm just outside of Syracuse, NY. Let me know what you think of the shop your are going to. The place locally that worked on my FTb is a serious camera repair shop and they did nice work (were not into selling me anything) and are good people... I'm just looking for a very good canon expert... while I amy not use this camera alot, it has a very significant amount of sentilmental value. I carried this camera around since I was around 13 or 14 years old. Shot allot of B&W pics (as well as developed and printed and sold them) of many high school sporting events as well as many pictures which made thier way into my high school yearbook.

Rich Brkich

 

I would let it go, posted on March 27, 2001 at 15:55:28
Romy


 
Rich, generally Canon at FTB’s time (pre-FD optics) did not produce the optics worth to keep now. (They had some but not the one you mentioned). If it is important to you as memory of your younghood or as a gift from people who are not with you anymore then you may keep it. Photographically it is not interesting and I would suggest let it go. Now, when the digital it taking over the photography the values or those mechanical cameras going doing very dramatically unless they are REAL serious...

The Cat

 

Re: I would let it go, posted on March 27, 2001 at 18:21:50
Rich Brkich
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Location: Near Syracuse, New York
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 The Camera and most of the lenses have too much personal value (all of it passed along to me by my father) to let them go. All the lenses are FD series lenses (except for that old Vivatar 85 to 205mm zoom lens) BTW.

I don't haul this camera around much these days, as I do have a nice digital camera (a Canon sure shot s-10 2MegaPixel) and a cheapie point and shot that I use for tkaing pics of HiFi gear at shows or home for my web site (i.e. not a very demanding application for which these cameras work fine for me).
Rich Brkich

 

Re: I would let it go, posted on March 27, 2001 at 19:17:34
Romy


 
*** The Camera and most of the lenses have too much personal value (all of it passed along to me by my father) to let them go.

I know what you feel. Approximately 10 years I made a creasy observation that among any camera lines there are the models that are capable to sponge the “spirit” of the users. You call it “personal value” I call it differently. I considered that those cameras were so brilliantly designed (requirements/functionality/implementation balance) that those cameras itself become a spiritual asset which was able to communicate with the surrounding. Most of the time they are properly build (my buddy John Curl should have hard attack right here…) with no extra functionalities and properly applied in the market (What the connection!) mechanical cameras. For example, to me they would be: Nikon FM, FM-2 (look: not F3…why?), Pentax’s K-1000, Minolta’s entire old “G” 7 line, Olympus OM-1, Canon F-1, practically all 4x5 and 8x10 cameras, most of the German Nazis cameras, Dresden’s Practical TL, Russian old Horizon, strangely practically non among the medium format except the old 220 or 330 twins…

Pretend you father left for you a worm-plastic supper-digital-gismo…Those cameras are excellent but… I do not thing it would survive the first trade show… no “personal value”. (perhaps some audio “designer” should think about it)

Unfortunately for you, the Canon doses not keep compliance between its newer and older optics…

Romy the Cat

 

Re: Any Canon guru's out there? Need some help with my old FTb, posted on June 28, 2001 at 14:13:35
beken


 
I have an FTb-n (originally had an FTb but it was stolen from my high-school locker) and have had it for almost 30 years. I also have 2 AE-1Ps. I also had the same problem with the shutter as you. Last year, I replaced the shutter mechanism. It cost me about $130 Canadian dollars labor included. I still like my FTb better than my AE-1s. It's more robust and being mechanical, is not prone to having the battery die on me.

Also, I feel the FD optics of that time are better than the current range of Canon lenses (but that's just an opinion). I also prefer manual focus.

 

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