This helped so much thank you!

I think my meter is busted. Have you been able to get it fixed?

@@alexroth8938 um I don't think there's a cheap way to get it fixed but you can download an app on your phone to use as a light meter. I know that's what a lot of people in my class have to use. With mine I kept closing the crank all the way which turns the meter off.

@@alexroth8938 Mine was sold with a busted meter but it was not, Did you have the shutter advance open some? I do not have my camera here, I think that activates it.

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Yes true but they are built like tanks

Very good cameras and well built

What settings do you use for inside? In daylight or at night with all the lights on. My lightsensor is broken and im a complete beginner with photography. So some starting settings really helps

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There is a thing called mirror slap when the mirror flips up and hits the foam rubber that stops it. This causes a bit of vibration which can cause your photos to appear out of focus at very slow shutter speeds. Locking the mirror up prevents this.

@@umac76 Nikkormat's was designed to take all of the same Nikkor lens's that the Nikon did. There was at least one Nikkor fisheye lens that required the mirror be locked in the up position due to the lens protruding back into the camera body.

Yes! Fully manual. Use a light meter or sunny 16!

I'd say try to pull on the notch at the tip of the shutter speed selector arm before trying to adjust the ASA selector. I have a FT3 and the selector locks in place and the only way to move it is to use my nail to pull on the notch to free it up. Hope it works!

Perhaps it might also have gook stuck underneath. Try a little isopropyl on a a tip to clean it a bit. Please subscribe

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Also you don’t need a battery if you don’t care about light metering

@@forwardcameras Thank you for the responses. I appreciate it. Happy holidays.

Honestly not sure what the issue is. Sometimes the metal parts aren’t aligned properly and it can get stuck

This happened to me with the old body I got at a garage sale! For me, there was a little lever under the name piece at the top that was broken and not snapping back up when it was supposed to, prohibiting me from changing the aperture lower than 11 leading to the lens getting stuck because it will only pop off on a certain aperture (5.6 I think). I got the lens off by using a needle tool to move the lever up and pulled it off at the right aperture. I don’t have any vintage camera repair places near me so I just purchased a new body for about 50 dollars. Hope this helps!

Backs are not interchangeable as far as I know. Nikkormat was marketed for US and Nikkomat was for Japan. Please subscribe

Yes, they are the same camera exactly, except for the little nameplate screwed on the front of the prism. Why the difference? Nikon was sold in the US through Nikon USA, which was economically separate from the home Nikon corporation. From the 1960s to the 1980s, there was a huge issue in the US over "grey market: cameras and lenses. These were products sold outside the US versus items sold through the US distributors. Basically, the US distributors added a hefty price markup to US sales, and they sought to bar people from buying the same items outside the US and bringing them into the country. The US distributors also refused to pay for warranty or unwarrantied repairs on equipment not sold through their network, just another way to try to freeze out people from buying from Hong Kong or Japan to save money. The main way this was enforced was by a law barring commercial or private importation of registered name brands. Nikon and some other companies went further by selling the same product under one name in the US and under another name everywhere else. Thus, Nikkormat in the US; Nikomat elsewhere. So when I bought my FT2 in 1976 in Japan, it was a Nikomat. If a brand restricted item was bought overseas and shipped or carried by buyer into the US, the brand name(s) had to be defaced, literally. I ordered a 50mm 2.8 El-Nikkor enlarging lens from Hong Kong in 1975. The seller had to use black lacquer to paint out the "Nikkor" on the front lens ring to get it through US customs. (Cost me $52 including shipping versus nearly $100 over the counter in the US.) The backs and other parts are interchangeable between the same versions of Nikkormats and Nikomats (including the nameplates, if that bothers you), but certainly not as to the F3.

Not sure what the issue is completely

You might have to press a button on the bottom of the camera if I remember to get the thing to rewind

The Wein MRB625 1.35V Zinc-Air can be used as a replacement.

You can buy a CHRIS adapter that reduces the voltage of today's 1.5v batteries to the correct 1.35v. However, check the meter reading against a known good modern camera as these 50yr old CdS meters are tired & might need the extra 'juice'!

Lr44 batteries fit in my Ft2

I hear Vivitar 283 with the matching off camera cord works can’t honestly say, I’ve never used the flash with this one

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