![]() It also has three motors inside to deal with film transport (not sure on the FPS, but pretty rapid), rewind and shutter cocking and takes four AA batteries to keep it going.Ĭanon basically built a Nikon F5 ten years before Nikon did. If you are familiar with the Ansel Adams zone system, it’s sort of like that. ![]() A particular innovation was multi-spot metering whereby you can spot meter a highlight area, spot meter a shadow area, and then the camera exposes in the middle – the party trick being that you can log up to 5 spot readings which register on the readout scale in the viewfinder, allowing you to bias or tune the exposure. The camera is fully electronic with with all kinds of fancy modes and settings, including the now familiar P/A/S/M exposure modes and average/centre-weighted/spot metering options. I bought mine many years ago for not a lot of money as a second body to my Canon A1. This camera was the precursor to the EOS range of autofocus SLR cameras, launched in 1986 it used the older canon FD range of manual focus lenses and is considered by many as the pinnacle of non-autofocus 35mm SLR cameras. ![]() I wouldn’t call it pretty, but it is very clever.
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