New Canon EF on the way

[k38]

I succumbed to a Canon EF this week. I can't wait until it gets here. I have always liked the F1 and the EF, but I don't know if I have ever had one in my hands, but I always liked the design of the shutter speed dial. As a shutter priority camera it would seem like a nice touch to be able to change shutter speeds with just your index finger while the camera is up to your eye. The Canon FD stuff is certainly nicely put together, I think I will need a nice FTb next. It was my first SLR, and I always regret selling it.

Joy!

Dwight

[PeterW]

Welcome to the ranks of Canon addicts Dwight. We could do with a few more here to counter those with Nikonitis ;D.

I've loved Canons for years. I've got an F1 (actually it belongs to my son John, but he's wrapped up in his digital Pentax at the moment so I'm looking after the F1). Then I've got an early Canonflex RP complete with its big external clip-on meter, an FP, an FX, three A1s, an AV-1, two T70s - one perfect and one which needs a new up/down selector switch. I did have an AE1 and an FTbn, but like an idiot I traded them in.

I've also got quite a few Canonets from the original large 'brick' models to the later more compact ones and three or four black plastic point and shoots. I love 'em all.

PeterW

[k38]

Thanks for the response Peter,

I wish I had stayed with Canon back in the late 70's rather than go with Pentax K models. I was very taken with the MX and later the LX. My LX was a bit of a lemon letting me down on the job and in England at my brother's wedding. I used Mamiya twin lens a lot for work and I still have my first one, A C220 that I bought in 1976 with money from my first real job. I try not to sell cameras or guns anymore as I end up missing them and buying another (very inefficient). I tried a Nikon 6006 at the beginning of the Auto focus film SLR era (very short era!) but I was put off a bit by the idea of all the black paint coming off the back of a Nikon. So I bounced back to Canon with an EOS 1n they were going very cheap when the EOS 1v was coming out. I have been pleased with my EOS lenses on the 30D digital as well. My Nikon thing is mostly a collection I concentrate on the 1959 to the advent of AI lenses time period which was really the heyday for Nikon (my opinion only). I really like a plain prism Nikon F with the GN Nikkor and a Weston Master V as a walk around outfit. I also like a Leicaflex SL as overhauled by Sherry Krauter - she is a real character to talk to on the telephone! I think that my next sort of system to assemble will be based around my Canon F1 and EF. I have 5 lenses; I tend to shy away from zooms though.
I would like to get some super wide angle lenses for Nikon or Canon as I always find that is the way I see things in my head.

Yours,

Dwight

[byuphoto]

Welcome to the ranks of Canonaters. We are few but mighty of voice. I have an F1, F1n, EF, A1, Two T90,s, A2, EOS 1V, EOS 3 and a Digital Rebel. I guess you could say i like Canon