Chrome Nikon Nikkormat FTN 35MM Professional SLR film camera

[Music] hello guys and welcome to another episode of positively negative today i'm going to be looking at my nickel matte ftn now nickel mats are interesting cameras i think they're lesser known on the internet because people don't know that nickel mats are actually nikons right you can actually see it emblazoned on the back of the camera nikon japan right so why on earth does it say nickel mat on the front and not nikon well this camera was released around the time of the nikon f and the nikon f2 i actually think it was before the f2 and at that time the word nikon was synonymous with the nikon f if you had a nikon you had a nikon f and nikon decided that their consumer grade or semi-professional grade of camera wouldn't be called nikon it would be called nickel matte so basically they wanted to differentiate between the professional nikon the nikon f and the amateur everyday nikor mat