![]() It is fully coupled to shutter speed dial and aperture ring on FD lenses in the match needle style. ![]() ![]() The meter is of the 12% (1/9) partial type with the metering area indicated by a slightly darkened box in the center of the finder area. It offers a 10-second self-timer, as well as mirror lock-up. The FTb has rubberized silk shutter curtains rather than the more durable but more expensive titanium curtains found on the F-1. The FTb has an all-mechanical horizontally traveling focal plane shutter with timed speeds from 1/1000 to 1 second and bulb. The Canon FTb was released at a retail price of 35,000 yen for the camera body ($99, or US$580 in 2014 USD). The FTb was primarily intended to be a camera for the advanced amateur photographer, offering many of the same features and same build quality as the F-1, but without the option of interchangeable prisms, focusing screens, or motor drives. Launched alongside the top-of-the-line F-1, the FTb was the mass-market camera in the range. It features a Canon FD lens mount, and is also compatible with Canon's earlier FL-mount lenses in stop-down metering mode. The Canon FTb is a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera manufactured by Canon of Japan from March 1971 replacing the Canon FT QL. ![]()
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