Is it a bias against electronic cameras, or is that they just don't look as sexy as a camera covered in leather and chrome?
And it's a really nice camera. I'm not sure how much I care about eye-controlled focus, but the eye-controlled DoF preview is very nice, and I could get used to it. It's got a full suite of "modern" bells and whistles-- and they can all be turned off if you like. If I had to make a complaint it's that there's no backlight for the LCD, and it can't be used with infrared film due to the frame counting mechanism.
You need to add the motor drives to the MX for an accurate comparison of size and wt, to be fair adding the battry grip does add size and wt to the EOS 1. The Olympus, apple and oranges, or tangerines and grapefruit, completely different 35mm in design, features and intended use.
...I own more than one Speed Graphic, so I grok the aesthetic... but occasionally, you just want to take a picture with reliable hardware.
I have an EOS A2E (same as your 5) and EOS 3. I only have two lenses (Sigma 50mm f/1.4 and EF 28-105 f/3.5-4.5 II macro) because I abandoned Canon digital several years ago in favor of a Sigma sd Quattro (principally landscape) and Fuji X series (X-T4 currently). Loved the 17-40L, 80-200 f/4L and 135mm f/2L but sold them as well. I still have my Sigma EF 500EX flash.I ask because I picked up an EOS 5 this week-- the idea of a full-feature film camera that works with 2/3's of my existing lenses was appealing, and this particular body is one of the last ones made (Jan. 2000, if I decoded the stamp correctly), in excellent condition, with a KEH warranty. While I paid a bit more because KEH said it was in excellent working order, it was still cheaper than most of 35mm cameras I see discussed on here..
I love the eye-controlled focus. It's really nice to have - on both cameras. Both cameras have been rock-solid for many years, although the 2CR5 lithium ion batteries are not cheap for the number of shots you get out of them.And it's a really nice camera. I'm not sure how much I care about eye-controlled focus, but the eye-controlled DoF preview is very nice, and I could get used to it. It's got a full suite of "modern" bells and whistles-- and they can all be turned off if you like. If I had to make a complaint it's that there's no backlight for the LCD, and it can't be used with infrared film due to the frame counting mechanism.
I detect an inconsistency here.
I have an EOS A2E (same as your 5) and EOS 3.
I love the eye-controlled focus. It's really nice to have - on both cameras. Both cameras have been rock-solid for many years, although the 2CR5 lithium ion batteries are not cheap for the number of shots you get out of them.
How about size and weight?
Size comparison: Canon EOS1V, Olympus Stylus Epic and Pentax MX by Les DMess, on Flickr
My first EOS was the EOS3 and it's super reliable and accurate film advance system uses infrared so no infrared film use is recommended.
You could add two motor drives to the Pentax MX and it still wouldn't be as honking big as the Canon EOS. Speaking of grapefruit, the Canon EOS resembles a grapefruit with a couple of tumors.You need to add the motor drives to the MX for an accurate comparison of size and wt, to be fair adding the battry grip does add size and wt to the EOS 1. The Olympus, apple and oranges, or tangerines and grapefruit, completely different 35mm in design, features and intended use.
You could add two motor drives to the Pentax MX and it still wouldn't be as honking big as the Canon EOS. Speaking of grapefruit, the Canon EOS resembles a grapefruit with a couple of tumors.
Minolta made a 35mm AF film SLR with dial controls, the 600si. I have several of them and power them with AAs. The battery grip makes shooting verticals much easier. I put some Fuji 200 color print film into the Rebel XS today and shot with both the 28-200 Sigma and the 35-80 EF III. Then I put on the 550EX flash. With the mode dial set to TV and the shutter speed set to 1/125 I got a default of f/5.6. I think I'll have the roll processed tomorrow to see how things turn out. Learning a new system is interesting. You get to see how a different manufacturer solves various problems.
I think we've established in this thread that today's appearance-obsessed hipsters want a camera that looks like a manual camera, not a DSLR, and so shallowly scorns the EOS. Also that Photrio's traditionalist wing eschews blobby plastic cameras for the reliability of good old metal, and so profoundly scorns the EOS.
Anyway, I neither love nor hate them, but I wish that in the 1990s Canon had made a retro-styled EOS compatible film body, with a traditional shape, individual dials for shutter and aperture (aperture would have to be controlled from the body obviously), manual focus aid in the VF, maybe even manual film advance. Like an EOS FM2 or FM3. It would have sold approximately zero copies then, and now people would be falling over themselves to find it.
I too had a T90 and an EOS 3 and it's clear that, for the same specs -save for AF of course- the EOS3 is way behind, due to bulk and weight (I had the booster. Made the handling great in all orientations, but the camera + 85/1.8 weighted more than my Tachihara +3lenses...). This is not to depsise the EOS3, as it was a very capable camera that I really liked, but it's more a computer that photographs than a camera (yes I also had an EOS 7D, and it was worse in terms of settings).Had various FD models in the past but the only EOS model I had was an EOS3 that I got boxed and mint for a song. Technically an amazing camera but it never felt right in the hand, the grip was just far too big to be comfortable and that was the standard grip not the booster one. Decided to sell it on as it just felt uncomfortable.
I still have a T90 and it felt soooooo much better in hand compared to the EOS3, and the Canon digital bodies I have tried.
I think one of the reasons a lot of professionals chose Canon EOS cameras was the lenses had a built in motor for the autofocus whereas the competition were shaft driven. ( I know Nikon later changed ).
The USM (ultrasonic motor) Canon lenses were super fast to focus and there wasn't the focus hunting of some of the competition. In otherwords the Canon got it right first time, every time (as someone already mentioned). That is what a professional wants.
As a workhorse, the Canon EOS 1 film series were great cameras. I shot professionally with one for over 10 years and never had a problem.
I still have it but do I shoot film now with it?
Sadly no, because I like simple mechanical film cameras.
600si. Yet another camera to look out for on my list.
Does it have the ability to use back button autofocus?
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