Canon FTb, my third camera
I bought the camera in April 1974 and used it until the last minute when I was robbed of it in January 1983. A few years later I bought a another one for sentimental reasons.
![Canon FTb](imgcam/canon_ftb_1c_1974.jpg) 1974. Canon FTb, flash National PE-2850, Soligor extension tube + tele converter and lens Tokina 200 mm f/1:3,5.
![Canon FTb](imgcam/canon-ftb_7481c.jpg) 2017. For sentimental reasons I bought a another Canon FTb camera, I still have the other things.
![Canon FTb, manual](imgcam/canon_ftb_3.jpg) This manual is all I have left from my purchase of the original camera. Notice that it is showing a f/1:1.4 S.S.C. lens with black front even though I got the older f/1:1.4 lens with "chrome nose".
![Canon lens FD 50 mm, f/1:1.4](imgcam/canon-fd-50mm_7923.jpg) Canon lens FD 50 mm, f/1:1.4.
![Canon lens FD 50 mm, f/1:1.4](imgcam/canon-fd-50mm_5326.jpg) Canon lens FD 50 mm, f/1:1.4 with rubber lens hood.
![Canon FTb](imgcam/canon-ftb_8160.jpg) Canon FTb.
![Tokina lens 200 mm, f/1:3,5 for Canon](imgcam/tokina-200mm-canon_5318_collage.jpg) Tokina lens 200 mm, f/1:3,5 for Canon.
![Soligor tele converter for Canon and Soligor extension tubes for Canon](imgcam/soligor-canon_5311_collage.jpg) Soligor tele converter 2x and Soligor extension tubes (36mm, 18mm, 11mm) for Canon.
![Soligor tele converter test](imgcam/soligor-teleconverter_collage.jpg) Summer 1974, testing my Soligor tele converter 2x with 50mm and 135mm lenses. (The colours on the photo prints have faded.)
![Tamron Auto 135mm f/2.8 with Tamron Adapt-A-Matic lens mount](imgcam/tamron-135mm-canon_1019b.jpg) Tamron Auto 135mm f/2.8 (first version) with Tamron Adapt-A-Matic lens mount.
![Tamron Auto 135mm f/2.8 with Tamron Adapt-A-Matic lens mount for Canon](imgcam/tamron-135mm-canon_0403.jpg) Tamron Auto 135mm f/2.8 (first version) with Tamron Adapt-A-Matic lens mount. The lens mount is interchangeable, CA-F is for Canon.
![Tamron Adapt-A-Matic mount for Canon](imgcam/tamron-135mm-canon_1015collage2.jpg) Tamron Adapt-A-Matic interchangeable lens mount, CA-F is for Canon.
![Flash National PE-2850](imgcam/national-pe-2850_5206b.jpg) Flash National PE-2850.
![Canon FTb](imgcam/canon-ftb_5341_collage.jpg) Canon FTb.
![Canon FTb](imgcam/canon-ftb_1980_1.jpg) Superimposed photo made 1980.
![Canon Racing Team sticker, 1974](imgcam/canon-racing-team-sticker_1974.jpg) Canon Racing Team sticker, 1974.
![Canon FTb, my third camera](imgcam/canon-ftb_1974-07_skane.jpg) July 1974. The first photo of me with the Canon FTb, taken 3 months after I bought it.
![Canon FTb, my third camera](imgcam/canon-ftb_1975-07_switzerland.jpg) Switzerland, July 1975.
![Canon FTb, my third camera](imgcam/canon-ftb_1978.jpg) Selfportrait with Canon FTb, August 1975.
![Canon FTb, my third camera](imgcam/canon-ftb_1980_2.jpg) 1980.
![Canon FTb, my third camera](imgcam/canon-ftb_1981.jpg) Centre Pompidou, Paris 1981.
![Canon FTb, my third camera](imgcam/canon-ftb_1982-09_tokyo.jpg) Tokyo 1982.
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