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Canon A-1 - the unloved Canon SLR?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Excalibur wrote:
If you are interested in flash try and get the matching 300TL cheap..but for me I try and use all my cameras in my profile, they are just tools to me with an additional hobby of playing with lenses , but they are all better than I'm a photographer Smile
AAMOI the new great buy of the year to look out for is the Canon AF EOS 300 with the kit lens for £5 (I bought one and so did someone else for a fiver) this does everything like the A1 and only weighs 820g also I've put a EF to M42 adapter on it, and it can meter....shame it can't take FD lenses Sad..thank you Canon for not caring. Sad


Yes - Canon's biggest black spot against its then existing established support base.
I think that I will pass on the EOS 300.
Thanks, but no thanks Canon.
OH


PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Excalibur wrote:

Just to add as you are interested in exposure:- The T90 has spot metering and IIRC you can select up to 8 (or is it 9) areas in your scene and it will hold this in memory and average the exposure before you take the shot....ok it's cheating again over traditional methods Smile


Yeah, I remember even from the ads on the T90 back in the 80s about its spot averaging. I finally bought a clean T90 last year, but I've never used this feature. Really haven't used the camera that much, to be honest, but I am very much impressed by its capabilities. It's only real fault, the way I see it, is the aperture ring is not coupled to the meter. So, when shooting in manual mode, just like with the A-1, you've got to look away from the viewfinder to the lens to see where to set the aperture for proper exposure. I don't know why Canon didn't offer this feature in more cameras than it did. The FTb, the TX and TLb?, the new and old F-1s, and the AT-1 are the only FD cameras that had the aperture coupled to the meter.


PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
cooltouch wrote:
Excalibur wrote:

Just to add as you are interested in exposure:- The T90 has spot metering and IIRC you can select up to 8 (or is it 9) areas in your scene and it will hold this in memory and average the exposure before you take the shot....ok it's cheating again over traditional methods Smile


Yeah, I remember even from the ads on the T90 back in the 80s about its spot averaging. I finally bought a clean T90 last year, but I've never used this feature. Really haven't used the camera that much, to be honest, but I am very much impressed by its capabilities. It's only real fault, the way I see it, is the aperture ring is not coupled to the meter. So, when shooting in manual mode, just like with the A-1, you've got to look away from the viewfinder to the lens to see where to set the aperture for proper exposure. I don't know why Canon didn't offer this feature in more cameras than it did. The FTb, the TX and TLb?, the new and old F-1s, and the AT-1 are the only FD cameras that had the aperture coupled to the meter.


That is such a strange decision by Canon.
Difficult to understand
OH


PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, I think that Canon had decided to go "all in" on automation for its amateur line of cameras with the introduction of the AE-1 in 1976, with the AT-1 being the sole notable exception, which came out shortly after the AE-1 -- an obvious nod to photography students who needed manual control, but who couldn't afford an F-1. Anyway, because of this attitude, I believe that Canon just didn't see aperture coupling as necessary, since, with the A-1 and T90, when the aperture ring is set to "A", one can shoot in Aperture Priority and assign the aperture value on the camera and not the lens.
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