FTb vs all Digital Cameras (Page 2): I didn't say that. I simply said you need a battery to meter.

foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

Architect1776 wrote:

Not to take a photo.
Meter not required.
Ask Matthew Brady.

I didn't say that. I simply said you need a battery to meter.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Architect1776 wrote:

What can a FTb do better than any digital camera?

Far to Busy?
Feed the beast?
Fade to black?
Franchise Tax Board?

Just love acronyms, don't you. You can come across as an expert when no one else knows what it stands for.
And I just love those that use an acronym with the meaning put in the brackets. Makes you look really smart doesn't it.

AntonioReyna Loc: Los Angeles, California

I have many of the Canon Film cameras. The FTb was notable as I used it in college along with Canons VIT and VII rangefinders. The FTB QL has the easiest film loading of any film camera. Much as I love it, I would not stack it up with today's digital cameras.
For sheer good looks, I would go with the Canon EF and original F-1 models.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

billnikon wrote:

Far to Busy?
Feed the beast?
Fade to black?
Franchise Tax Board?

Just love acronyms, don't you. You can come across as an expert when no one else knows what it stands for.
And I just love those that use an acronym with the meaning put in the brackets. Makes you look really smart doesn't it.

??????
You aparrently are totally confused about the post or cannot read with this asinine comment.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

AntonioReyna wrote:

I have many of the Canon Film cameras. The FTb was notable as I used it in college along with Canons VIT and VII rangefinders. The FTB QL has the easiest film loading of any film camera. Much as I love it, I would not stack it up with today's digital cameras.
For sheer good looks, I would go with the Canon EF and original F-1 models.

I agree.
I could have chosen a Nikon FT but using the FTb as an example winds up the Nikon fans to bash the FTb.
Mine that I got during a stint in Panama is still going just fine. PS the original FTb not the n model.

LDB415 Loc: Houston south suburb

Architect1776 wrote:

What can a FTb do better than any digital camera?

Look better, more like a "real" camera. No digital can do that as well.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

User ID wrote:

0. Nope. Digital meters all lenses.

1. Use FD lenses with auto iris.
2. Use film.
3. Run with no battery.

Great list. I'll add, make people ask, "What is THAT?"

I had a Canon FX briefly, and almost bought an FTb in 1969. I bought a Nikkormat FTn instead.

I saw a guy in Barcelona, Spain, using a Canon FTb back in October. He was in his '70s. I smiled, remembering my 14-year-old self with the FX.

elee950021 Loc: New York, NY

Architect1776 wrote:

What can a FTb do better than any digital camera?

I've got an old FTb body somewhere in storage! If I need a brick, I'll paint it orange and it would match the bricks in the front of my house. :-) LOL!

Happy holidays! Be well! Ed

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Architect1776 wrote:

What can a FTb do better than any digital camera?

Why this competition??

If I had owned one I would value the photos it had given me and hope the current generation could do as well as for so long. Let the past be the past.

Alafoto Loc: Montgomery, AL

ELNikkor wrote:

make loud clunking noises when you take a photo

Paperweight, doorstop?

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Architect1776 wrote:

Sounds like a dedicated Nikon F lover.

Absolutely and what's wrong with that.

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

Architect1776 wrote:

What can a FTb do better than any digital camera?

An FTb QL documented my daughter’s birth thru college graduation. I gave up on it when the battery swelled and leaked down into the camera. I had taken many pictures without a functioning battery.

Anyone who doesn’t know what a FTb is… is not a photographer… so ignore their comments. Anyone who did not own one is secretly regretting that… especially if they bough a Nikon instead.

I do believe it damaged the spine in my neck… which was surgically repaired last year.

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

Architect1776 wrote:

Sounds like a dedicated Nikon F lover.

I have an FM. I love it.

therwol Loc: USA

KillroyII wrote:

Anyone who did not own one is secretly regretting that… especially if they bough a Nikon instead.

Believe that if you want. No one could touch Nikon in 1971. What happened after that is irrelevant.

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

billnikon wrote:

Far to Busy?
Feed the beast?
Fade to black?
Franchise Tax Board?

Just love acronyms, don't you. You can come across as an expert when no one else knows what it stands for.
And I just love those that use an acronym with the meaning put in the brackets. Makes you look really smart doesn't it.

BIG, BIG, pet peeve of mine.

On a camera club page once someone said the posted image was "edited in CR." I had no idea, so I asked. "Camera Raw" was the reply. Okay, but see, that is "Adobe Camera Raw," often referred to as "ACR," but never just CR. You can't just drop any word and use only its first letter and expect people to read your mind and know what you mean.

Technically, an acronym is the combined first letters of the represented words, which themselves form a pronounceable word (RADAR, NASA, etc.) Letters which do not make such a word, e.g. FBI, CIA, USAF, are "initialisms." On the Internet today, out of pure laziness if you ask me, people initialize many things that should just be typed out, and then have to expend even more energy explaining what they meant in a separate message...