Canon F-1 professional use

[benjiboy]

Jay has some Awesome frames...!!

Jay Maisel was actually featured as a user on The Canon Corporations advertising literature for the original F1 (although I know he mainly used Nilon F2s at the time), they had spent a fortune on about ten years R&D on the camera and were desperate to get into the pro. market, unfortunately, Chip, I'm old enough to remember.

 

[jtk]

San Francisco Examiner photojournalist Greg Robinson was killed in the line of duty at the Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide/murder.

One of his Canon F1s was found in the mud where he fell, brought to me by one of our mutual photo pro friends. I had plenty of Canon F1s at the time and didn't want one with that history.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/20...ol_aid_drinking_victims_of_the_jonestown.html

 

[CMoore]

I was not aware of those murders at the airstrip.
I remember "The Suicides" clearly. I was in my last year of high school at the time.
What a F'ing mess...a nightmare.

 

[jtk]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/jonestown-massacre-takes-lives-hundreds-1978-article-1.2877618

I heard Rev. Jim Jones preaching on radio. Very compelling guy, very compelling sermon. We'd want that from a mass murderer, right? Two of his followers sent their kids to my son's primary school....I think they escaped before the killings.