I used to sell these cameras Les when I worked at a professional dealers when they were current, and I know what fine cameras they are, but they unfortunately never really captured their market share of the pro. market that Nikon had the strangle hold on at the time.Thanks Ben for as you know with these types of cameras, sometimes the accessories cost even more than the bodies!
Was looking through the local CL and spotted a low priced ad titled Minolta accessories and curiously looked to find a low res shot of what looked like filters and such but buried in it look like possibly an XK finder - or perhaps I was wishing it was. So I arranged to pick up the box of stuff and was pleasantly surprised to see it was an XK Waist Level finder and a High Magnification finder - both with caps. Both look unused outside and inside! It's a great compliment to the AE and AE-S finders I already have.
Adding new finders makes it a new old camera to me . . .
"Was looking through the local CL and spotted a low priced ad titled Minolta accessories... "
What people refer to as the "famous shutter squeak" of the A series Canon Cameras is very misleading to owners who try and lubricate their camera shutters and ruin them, I asked the technician who services my cameras he told me it's nothing to do with the shutter, but is a dry bearing in the mirror braking mechanism.
Canon's first electronic camera with a C.P.U. was the EF http://www.mikegrigsby.com/html/canon_ef.html, which was I.M.O. was a much better camera than the AE1.
I have an EF and the Copal shutter is the only one Canon ever installed that they didn't make themselves, and it's blades are actually made of pure Platinum .Yes, it's the mirror return mechanism that commonly squeaks. Anyway, thanks to a YouTube vid, it's fixed now. Sounds and operates like a new camera.
As for the Canon EF, I'd love to own one someday - a very beautiful and well made camera. Still, the article you referenced does not state anywhere that it has a CPU. The EF does have an electronic auto exposure system with shutter priority, and it has an excellent Copal electronic shutter. Plus it has something that I wish all cameras of that era had: a voltage regulator circuit.
BTW, as a curiosity, how's the Petri FT EE? Did it came with a lens?
My first SLR was a Petri FT handed down to me from my father.
I have an EF and the Copal shutter is the only one Canon ever installed that they didn't make themselves, and it's blades are actually made of pure Platinum .
Good camera. Mine still has a working mercury battery. Those cloth shuttered, tin bodied, manual cameras will still be going when the rest are landfill.Latest new old camera, Canon FTb.
Jeff
Good camera. Mine still has a working mercury battery. Those cloth shuttered, tin bodied, manual cameras will still be going when the rest are landfill.
Great buy! Where would you recommend I look for similar?Olympus Trip in near mint condition for 6 squids 50.
That was a steal. Whenever I looked in Palmer's window while on holidays, they always looked a bit pricey.RR, I've heard the Real Camera Company in Manchester is good. I've also bought quite a lot of stuff from Mr Cad and Ffordes. The 6.50 Trip was in D.Palmer's in Bridport btw.
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