This camera was the first soviet panorama camera to be put into full production. It uses a curved film plane and a sweeping lens to minimize distortion. These cameras used a special film cassette with the film moving from one cassette to the other. This makes rewinding unnecessary. If as is often the case, one or both of the cassettes is missing the camera is not usable. There is no source of cassettes and to get them you would have to buy another camera (source: www.rafcamera.com).
Produced: 1958-1965
Name: „ФТ-2“
Producer: KMZ
Frame size: 24x110mm.
Lens: Industar-50 3.5/50.
Shutter: 1/100, 1/200, 1/400s.
Quantity: 16.662 units.
Can be found under very rare export names: "Spiratone", "Panorama" (USA market), "Spaceview", "Spaceview-2" (France market) [2].