Category Canon FD Lenses

Happy SUNday! – camera brochures

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Collecting classic camera sales brochures is fun, but it’s also educational. If the marketing departments did their jobs correctly, then the information should be entertaining and a great way to enhance your collecting experience.

Here are five recent acquisitions.

Likely the first and most complete brochure for the new Canon F-1, which was released in March 1971. This brochure is dated November 1970.
An often overlooked early Canon camera. Dated November 1970.
Part of Canon’s building blocks of sophisticated 35mm SLRs on their way to developing the F-1. Dated September 1969.
I had the next model up from this classic. Dated March 1971.
Check out these guys with their Canon Super 8 movie camera. Dated March 1971.
Available Canon lenses as of late 1970.

I have more brochures in my collection, with the earliest being from the mid-1950s.

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My well-used but super-clean Canon New F-1 (F-1N) limited-edition Los Angeles 1984 camera set.

The LA Olympics F-1 is a favorite with collectors. Most ended up either being gently used or put on display. Fewer than 9,500 were made. My F-1 was obviously a busy camera throughout its life. It was assembled in November 1983, and the lens in October. Most of these were made with the AE finder, which makes mine a bit more unusual because it has an eye-level finder. Everything works as designed.

Canon New FD 135mm f3.5 short telephoto lens set. The 135 is a popular lens for portraits, sporting events, and wildlife photography.
It’s no secret that I love super-wide-angle lenses, the wider the better. I’ve used the 17mm and the 24mm; the 20mm is a nice compromise between those two.
Who doesn’t love a still-mint-condition instruction booklet?
My last unused Canon 50mm.
Pristine.
Remembering a sharp camera from the late 1970s. My last cine camera before I got my first video camera.

As I continue to downsize my collection, these special Canons are now available in my Etsy camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com.

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ET at 600mm

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Playing with my Canon NFD 400mm f/4.5 lens on my Fujifilm X-T2. The effective focal length is 600mm.

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A great combination.

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Canon FD 400mm Lens, a mid-eighties gem.

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My lens is from November 1985 (Z1100) and has ‘U.S. Navy’ markings. It’s the newer ‘New FD’ lens with the improved bayonet mount.

Shown here mounted on my Fujifilm X-T2 digital mirrorless camera via a simple FD-FX adapter.
The Fuji makes an excellent platform for using my classic film camera lenses.

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Canon F-1 Family

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My original Canon F-1 from 1978 is on the upper left (with the motor drive)—the Canon O.D. F-1 is my most recent acquisition.
With their original instruction booklets.
With an early Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 chrome nose lens.
OD F-1. A limited edition olive drab version from early 1978.
My earliest model. The serial number indicates that this camera was in the first 20,000 built in 1971. It also has the <E.P> mark.
My only Canon New F-1 with AE Finder.

It’s one of my favorite 35mm SLRs in my collection.

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Happy SUNday! – Canon Crazy

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Canon New F-1 set at the ready. The F-1 is from December 1982, and the lens is from April 1980.
Canon New F-1 with a Canon NFD 20mm f/2.8 lens.
Canon AE Motor Drive FN on my F-1. The drive is from February 1987.

The next time I go for a photo walk, I’ll use the Canon NFD 20mm super wide-angle lens on either this camera or my Fujifilm X-T2.

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seeing double

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Canon New F-1, Canon FD 24mm f/2.8, Fujifilm 200.
Interesting?

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Canon’s amazing 35mm SLR, the EF (1973-1978)

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In many ways, it’s better than the much more famous F-1.

It’s also known as the Canon Black Beauty. It’s built on the F-1’s frame but does not have interchangeable viewfinders or the ability to use a power winder or motor drive.

The EF was first released in 1973, just two years after the F-1. It was Canon’s first aperture-priority camera, well before the AE-1.
The standard lens is the Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 S.S.C. shown here with its lens hood.
Here, a Canon EF and its cousin, the Canon F-1. The F-1 is shown in a limited-edition olive drab.
Another EF in my collection.

The Canon EF is a worthy camera for your collection. The ability to electronically time exposures from 1/2 to 30 seconds accurately makes it more versatile than the F-1 in its base form.

From the Japanese instruction book.
The view in the viewfinder. The later EFs had a split-image and microprism focusing screen.
From my EF released in Japan.
An earlier EF with the FD 50mm F/1.8 S.C. lens.

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Single Frame Friday

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J & T Kydd Building, Fernandina Beach, Fl.

The Kydd Building was built in 1873 for J & T Kydd’s Dry Goods, on 301 Centre Street, then a drug store. The adjacent building, the Allen Building, was built in 1911—National Register of Historic Places.
Canon New F-1
Canon FD 24mm f/2.8
Fujifilm 200

Canon New F-1 35mm SLR film camera.

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Today’s Kit – Canon F-1

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Today’s Kit
Canon New F-1 with NFD 24mm f/2.8 lens.
I love the ‘Canon Red’ braided strap.

As smooth as silk. The F-1 is a joy to use.

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