Here’s something you don’t see every day. It’s a 500mm reflex lens – also known as a catadioptric lens. There’s a pointless answer for you.
Continue reading “Canon FD 500mm Reflex”Canon New F1 – Needles, dials, aperture priority, joy
I’ve been building my Canon film SLR collection. My latest acquisition, all the way from Japan and all the way from 1981, is a New F1. And it’s probably the best of the lot.
(When I say New F1, it is new to me, and it’s an F1. But it’s also a New F1, as opposed to an F1, or an F1n AKA the F1 later model. Canon… sort out your naming conventions…)
Continue reading “Canon New F1 – Needles, dials, aperture priority, joy”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.
Continue reading “Mystery Canon Lucky Z-85 – Update: mystery solved”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.
Continue reading “Canon 35mm film SLRs compared”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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