How Many Canon FD Cameras Do You Own?

[cooltouch]

Well, this group seems to be awful quiet, so I thought I'd post a message that most anybody who wants to be here can answer. And I, for one, am interested in the answers.

So I'll lead off. But first a bit about my experience with Canon. My first 35mm camera was a Canon AE-1. About a year after buying it, I bought an A-1, and from that point forward, the rest of the FD cameras I bought were manual, mechanical cameras. Until I changed systems to Nikon (Oops). At which point, I started over again. But I didn't start over again until digital had gained a serious enough foothold to cause most film-based gear to plummet in value. Which is at least part of the reason why I'm asking the subject question. So the follow up question to the subject question would be -- how many of your Canon FD cameras have you purchased since digital caused the price plunge?

My answer to that second question is "all of them." Prior to 2009, I had zero Canon FD cameras. Then I started getting the itch for an old F-1 -- still my favorite camera of all time. So I bought one, and that's when the dam broke. I now have:

Original F-1: 2 (both with winders)
New F-1: 1 (with motor drive)
FTb: 2 (1 chrome, one black)
EF: 1
A-1: 2 (1 with motor drive)
AE-1 Program: 1 (black, with winder)
T-90: 1

So that's a total of ten. Not so many, but I think it's a decent selection, which includes the oldest and the newest FD cameras. I'll wager that some of you have more.

 

[benjiboy]

I've never owned a digital SLR because I never had any desire for one, my FD cameras are -:

4 Canon New F1 bodies (2 with AE finders and 2 with eye level finders)
2 Canon Motor drive FN's
1 Canon EF
1 Canon T90
1 Canon A
Plus 9 FD lenses
All my cameras and lenses are in good serviceable condition .

 

[dances_w_clouds]

4 A1's (2 wrk properly. 1 has stop down button problems. 1 completely dead for parts)
2 AE 1p (1 blk 1 slvr)
1 AE 1 slvr
1 TL QL
1 FT QL
2 T90
2 MA power winders
3 Power Winder A
Must have at least 20 ish FD lenses.

Yes I have enough (for now)

 

[tokam]

In descending order of age:
1 T90 plus 300TL. The last camera I bought new in 1987.
1 F1-N bought used about 4 years ago
1 A1 bought new in 1984
1 AE-1 bought new in 1978. A big step up from the Zenit E I bought in high school in 1973.
1 EF bought used about 3 years ago.

All are in good working condition.

Plus about a dozen FD mount lenses. Mostly Canon but also the odd Vivitar and Tamron.

 

[pentaxpete]

2x FTbn 0ne bought with load of FD gear from a 'disillusioned' Camera Club member who said he could never get 'Winning Photos', one body given by another Club Member
2x AE-1 one bought new one secondhand
1x A-1 good outfit GIVEN some years ago by a Gent whose Brother had died and found that I give 'Old Cameras a Good Home'

 

[benjiboy]

I don't consider my FD a financial investment only one in my pleasure in using it, I have owned the majority of my FD equipment for around thirty years and will never sell it anyway. I also can't think of a worst financial investment to get a return on at the moment than film cameras.

 

[f/16]

Right now just an A1 and TX that has a hole in the shutter curtain. I'd like to get a new F1, T90, and EF.

 

[moranjr]

I am looking for my first T90 and hope to find a Data Memory Back 90 as well.

 

[Tinykin]

Original F1, recently serviced
A1, door doesn't close properly so lets in light. Bought s/h in mid-nineties.
T90 in shabby and rattlely condition but somehow works perfectly.

 

[benjiboy]

I hope you are aware that the year dates on the data memory back for the T90 or any of the FD cameras for that matter morajr don't go to 2015.

 

[dances_w_clouds]

I think the A bodies dates only until 1986. I could be wrong as I have never wanted one even in the early 80's

 

[moranjr]

benjiboy the DMB 90 user manual says: "The auto calendar is programmed from 1985 to 2099".
Is your experience at odds with this? https://www.flickr.com/photos/75969628@N05/20094059685/in/datetaken-public/

 

[benjiboy]

I've never owned a T90 databack moranjr, I know it's the case with the F1 and A series cameras, as you say I'm probably as you say wrong about the T90.

 

[DWThomas]

I have an A-1 I bought new in 1981, an AE-1 I inherited from my dad in 1998 and an original F-1 I bought from a co-worker in the 90s. The F-1 was sort of a joke, he was razzing me that when a nuclear EMP took out all the electronics on the planet, the F-1 would still work (he knew I owned FD lenses). The A-1 is the only body I used at all regularly. That body is my second, after I dropped the first out of a fanny pack onto concrete in the mid-90s -- it still seemed to work, but had some dents and made some strange noises. After looking at "upgrading" to EOS, I decided to be cheap and just buy a used A-1 body in excellent condition (less than the price of one decent EOS lens equivalent to any of the FDs I owned!)

I do mostly medium format for film these days, but have had the A-1 out a few times in the past few years.