Petri FT 1000

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Petri FT 1000 image by Mark Dalzell (Image rights)

The FT 1000 (like its sibling the FT 500) is a later 35mm SLR from Petri.

McKeown's dates it to 1976, at the time when Petri cameras had moved away from their proprietary breech-lock lensmount, and towards the 42mm "Universal" mount. By this time a stopdown-metering M42 body with shutter speeds from 1 to 1/1000 sec. had become a fairly generic commodity; and Petri had been building them on an OEM basis for several other brands.

On the positive side, the FT 1000 offers a self-timer, a shutter lock, a microprism focusing aid, a plastic-tipped advance lever, and a distinctive ASA-setting dial concentric with the rewind crank. Unlike the Petri FTX, the shutter release is now located more conventionally on the top deck.

Links

• Petri FT 1000 manual from Mike Butkus's OrphanCameras.com