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Category: 35mm

Posted on February 9, 2017April 5, 2019

Mystery Canon Lucky Z-85 – Update: mystery solved

Here’s a camera the interweb hasn’t heard about. It’s not listed in the Canon camera museum. Perhaps it’s not even a real Canon. (Update: It isn’t. See below.)

It’s a point and shoot zoom labelled ‘Canon Lucky Z-85’. It’s even got a ‘Lucky’ branded case.

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Posted on February 6, 2017April 5, 2019

Canon 35mm film SLRs compared

I’ve got a small collection of Canon 35mm film SLRs. Here’s what I think of them.

The collection is a pretty good alpha to omega of FD and EF mount film SLRs, from the 1971 FTb to the 1994 EOS 1n with some ’80s fun thrown in the middle.

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Posted on January 29, 2017April 5, 2019

Canon T50 – too honest for its own good

I wrote about my Canon SLR collection recently, mentioning that I’d like a T50.

Now, thanks to a camera swap with the very excellent Frank Lehnen, I’ve got one. (Frank got a not-very-compact Ricoh zoom compact. A nice camera… but I think I got the best end of the swap. Hope Frank doesn’t mind.)

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Posted on September 8, 2016April 5, 2019

Canon A1 – a fiddly festival of controls that’s surprisingly lovely to use

I wrote about my Canon SLR collection a while ago. The A1 was an obvious gap between the match-needles and dials of the Fs and the computers, buttons and LCDs of the Ts.

By the alchemy of eBay I transmuted three broken mobile phones into one very nice Canon A1. Gap filled.

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Posted on May 11, 2015April 5, 2019

Yashica T4… Noooooo!

Mr Garnett gave me an old camera… a Yashica T4. Joy. Cert on my wish list of cameras to try. But…

…it doesn’t work.

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