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Nikkormat FT s/n 3186511
Nikkor-S.C Auto 55mm/1.2 s/n 252103
The 1965 Nikkormat FT was Nikon's second attempt at a less-expensive body that could take F lenses; the first was the 1962 Nikkorex F.
The Nikkormat FT was priced at $270 with an f2 lens, which was around $70 less than a Nikon F with the same lens. (Today $70 doesn't seem like much, but it was equivalent to about $480 in 2009 dollars.) Interestingly, the FT had mirror lock-up, which meant that it really could take all the Nikkor lenses, even the fisheye whose rear element extended into the mirror's path. This was important if it was to serve as a second body to a Nikon F.
The "T" in FT stood for TTL, or through-the-lens, just as it did in Photomic T, the TTL finder for the Nikon F.
