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I bought an Ftb new, when they were new, sometime in 1975. Then it mattered more about the lenses than the sensor, since we all had access to the same film. What amazes me though are two things. One, the batteries then, based on a little mercury added, could last years and the main thing that changed image quality, was the lens. I had the F1 and later other Canons but the Ftb still works and the battery, which I still have 5 NOS refrigerated all this time and still test new, still works. It has been going for 40 years! Try that with any current battery (true they have much more to do but any current battery in the same meter last a couple of years at most). They allowed mercury in fluorescent bulbs but not something that would outlast anything else of this type by 10 or 15 times. I just tested the battery in my MR meter for my M2 Leica as well, which was placed around that time and used quite a bit, and the voltage still tests almost new and the meter works fine (and is accurate which the later 625 type battery was now due to a different voltage and they didn't/don't last very long).
Good cameras and some (not all) good batteries then in 75. With all that I still enjoy digital.
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