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In the early 1970s I had a conversation with the owner of a school photography operation. At the time he had more than a dozen operators working for him and he was processing something like 250 cassettes of 35mm a day. I was doing press stuff at the time and we got onto the question of reliability. This was a big deal for him since he supplied all his operators with cameras and a broken camera cost a lot in lost sales. He told me that, since the 1960s, he'd gone through the usual suspects and he'd finally settled on the Canon FT-QL.
"The Leica M3 is tough but the shutter often needs adjusting after 500 films or so", was his opinion, "The Nkon F is impossible to break but after 1,000 cassettes the wind mechanism becomes a bit fragile. So far we've put an average of 2,000 rolls through each FT and not one of them is showing any signs of stress." I suspect the Canon costing nearly half the price of the Leica or Nikon didn't harm his bottom line either.
"The Leica M3 is tough but the shutter often needs adjusting after 500 films or so", was his opinion, "The Nkon F is impossible to break but after 1,000 cassettes the wind mechanism becomes a bit fragile. So far we've put an average of 2,000 rolls through each FT and not one of them is showing any signs of stress." I suspect the Canon costing nearly half the price of the Leica or Nikon didn't harm his bottom line either.