Post by casualcollector on Apr 3, 2013 20:55:20 GMT -5
I haven't been actively adding to the collection for the past few years. I have been searching Craigslist hoping to find some cash desperate individuals looking to sell off their Canon L series EOS lenses for me to use on my new DSLR. In the process I came across this last week.
The Canon FP was introduced in the fall of 1964. It was Canon's second "FL" mount camera, after the FX which was introduced in the spring of that year. The FP was the economy model, with no light meter built into the body. An optional meter was offered. It fit into the accessory shoe and coupled to the shutter speed knob. Apparently, the FP was not a great seller and is relatively uncommon. In this case, the major impetus for for whipping out my wallet and shaking loose a few dead presidents was the lenses that came with it. The 50mm/1.4 is the six element first version introduced in 1965. A Canon FL 100-200mm f-5.6 was also included in the lot along with the FP instruction booklet and lens catalog (ca. 1964).
It's not my first FP. My other was purchased without lens and not warranted to work properly. It does function but very erratically. The attraction of the first was the Bell & Howell/Canon logo. The B&H logo was applied to early USA FX and FP and maybe, some early Pellix models. It wears the first version 50/1.8 introduced with the FX. Both bodies are early production with October and November 1964 date stamps.
The Canon branded body wears the <E-P> mark of a camera sold through the U.S. Military PX system, thus not wearing the added logo of Canon's official US distributor of the day.
Both cameras show signs of hard use. Both have had their rewind knobs replaced. Maybe Canon refrained from loc-tite or lockwashers!
Later Pellix, FT and TL models would sell in far greater numbers but it was the FP and meter equipped FX that started Canon down the path of success after foundering with their quirky Canonflex models.
The Canon FP was introduced in the fall of 1964. It was Canon's second "FL" mount camera, after the FX which was introduced in the spring of that year. The FP was the economy model, with no light meter built into the body. An optional meter was offered. It fit into the accessory shoe and coupled to the shutter speed knob. Apparently, the FP was not a great seller and is relatively uncommon. In this case, the major impetus for for whipping out my wallet and shaking loose a few dead presidents was the lenses that came with it. The 50mm/1.4 is the six element first version introduced in 1965. A Canon FL 100-200mm f-5.6 was also included in the lot along with the FP instruction booklet and lens catalog (ca. 1964).
It's not my first FP. My other was purchased without lens and not warranted to work properly. It does function but very erratically. The attraction of the first was the Bell & Howell/Canon logo. The B&H logo was applied to early USA FX and FP and maybe, some early Pellix models. It wears the first version 50/1.8 introduced with the FX. Both bodies are early production with October and November 1964 date stamps.
The Canon branded body wears the <E-P> mark of a camera sold through the U.S. Military PX system, thus not wearing the added logo of Canon's official US distributor of the day.
Both cameras show signs of hard use. Both have had their rewind knobs replaced. Maybe Canon refrained from loc-tite or lockwashers!
Later Pellix, FT and TL models would sell in far greater numbers but it was the FP and meter equipped FX that started Canon down the path of success after foundering with their quirky Canonflex models.
