My Christmas present arrived!

[PeterW]

Hi all,

My Christmas present from my son and daughter in law arrived this morning, a beautiful Canon T70. They used the Buy it Now option on ebay where the camera was described as Excellent.

I'm delighted with it, and would rate it as Excellent +. It is beautifully clean and well packed, and came with brand new batteries. Everything works just as Canon said it would. The only thing I can see that stops it being Mint is a tiny mark about a quarter of an inch long in the plastic at the back.

If anyone's interested, the UK seller was year26.

Peter

[Randy]

That's great Peter, my wife always teases me when I use my Canonet, she says "did you shoot that cannon yet? I didn't hear a thing!"

[vintageslrs]

Peter

sounds like a wonderful present!! ;D
best of luck with it.....
Enjoy!!




Bob

[Rachel]

Peter,

I'm sure you will enjoy your T70. I've had one for some years now and think it's a much underated camera. I'm not sure if these came in "colours" but mine is a silver grey; definitely not as dark as my T90. One of the best features must be that it uses 2 AA batteries for power.

[PeterW]

Hi Rachel,

My T70 is a dark slate grey. So far I'm halfway through a roll in it, and already I'm loving it. It feels so right in my hands, and the metering seems excellent: the difference between the two metering modes is sometimes well over a stop, and I've got to learn which one is the best to use for a given situation! And yes, running on two cheap AA batteries which you can get almost anywhere is great! .

Talking of batteries, I saw in Boots' New Year sale that silver oxide batteries for my Canon A1s were on 'limited offer' reduced to £2.99 - and also three for the price of two, the same price as their same size alkaline batteries! The price in Jessops last time I bought one was £5.55 each! So I bought three to keep in stock. My son John also got three to keep in stock for his F1.

Peter

[John Parry]

Peter,

I have an EOS 1000FN with a Sigma long and short pair of zooms, which I got for £70. Someone locally is selling a T80 with a Canon AF short zoom for £50. Do you think it would give me anything more than I have with the EOS?

Regards - John

[John Parry]

Forget my last post = have got my Yashica 230AF batteried up now, and that machine has to be one of the most underrated I have encountered. It can certainly do all that my EOS can do by the looks of things. The lens is 35-105, f3.5-4.5 - a nicer combination then the 35-70 Sigma that I have for the EOS, and the AF focussing if anything is quicker - certainly more responsive in low light.. On board flash, plus a dedicated one I got on eBay for £9.99 ($15?)

I can see that primes for it are going to be harder to get hold of, but can't see them being more expensive than the EOS lenses with their inflated prices. OK - film being loaded now. Will post however they come out...

Regards - John

[PeterW]

Hi John,

Hope your 230AF lives up to expectations, I've never handled one.

Nor have I got an EOS but I borrowed one from my son in law last summer so I could see how it felt to use. I can't remember the exact model now but I don't think it was 1000FN. Doesn't ring a bell.

I ran a roll through it and found it a nice camera to use, and the pictures were superb quality (I almost wrote superb without the qualifiying 'quality', but that would suppose that my photography is superb - which it ain't!! I never show people my failures ;D).

However, I found the auto focus rather slow, and as I'm in the habit of looking at all sorts of things through the viewfinder, and where there's time trying different view points before I take a shot, I found the focus motor had a large appetite for expensive batteries.

I'm quite happy with manual focus, I suppose because I've used it for years and it's second nature, and one of the attractions of the T70 is its ability to run for ages on a couple of cheap AA batteries.

The other is that I can use all my existing Canon and Canon-fit lenses - except the old 50mm R series lens on my Canonflex RP, but I've got several 50mm FD lenses.

Peter

[Microdad]

I had a T70 for several years and it's the one camera I miss the most. I bought it new when I was in the Army (1986) a month before being sent to Germany. This was the camera I took with me all over Europe, on training exercises, you name it my T70 was there! Almost every "photo adventure" story of mine begins with "I had this T70 once and ....." etc. What a great camera. This was the most reliable camera I ever had, with absolutely no problems with it whatsoever, had many features but was easy to use, the optics were superb, just the right weight, I could go on.

Plus, I don't think I spent more than $20 on batteries over the 6 years I owned it and I used it profusely.

Steve