A Review Of The Canon EF "Black Beauty" 35mm SLR
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I picked up one of these today with a 50mm 1.4 S.S.C lens for £230. Really happy with it. Cool video
How does it work in manual mode
Bought mine in 1978 and still have it. Got a pair of 1.5v batteries yesterday. Planning to shoot some B&W film and have my negatives scanned. Darkroom work would be fun, but too time consuming… and expensive.
Canon used to put those giant eye cups on everything. My EF didn't have one, but my A-1, AE-1 and AE-1 Program did and yeah they get in the way of the door. Mine currently are in the bottom of my camera tool box.
I found this model in a second hand today. You never know when you hit something interesting. It cost a little because he was with the lens 1: 1.4 50mm S.S.C but it was worth it. He fed my collection. I would be tempted to try it out.
I had one when they first came out brand new. It was lovely to use and had auto exposure. Abby those were the days.
I had the FTb it was very similar worked well in any condition
Please helllllp, all I did was go to wind my EF to take another picture and the arm is just limp now basically what tf did I do.
The eye cup just seems to be a bad design. It gets in the way on my FTB too.
thank you so much for that review! you're AMAZING!
Does it stop down metering ?
As a Nikon user since the mid 60's, I had too much invested in their system to consider changing, but when Canon first introduced the F1, I bought one. Years later, when they brought out the EF, I thought "Rats! I should have waited!" They are pretty cheap now, so I may need to get one to keep the F! company. Thanks for a great review of one of the prettiest cameras ever!
Best camera ever built!!!
I'm currently trying to replace my Canon EF's mirror assembly. Any pointers or referrals? Thanks!
Lovely camera; I have one in near mint condition. You said you have problems switching it on, and it looked as if you were trying to press the central button in the switch. No need, that button is the multiple exposure facility.
I have one of these myself, came to me as a sort of 'well Ill settle for this obscure thing' about ten years ago. I seriously love this camera. Full disclosure in the viewfinder of both shutter and aperture, and a clear meter. The lack of really any serious shutter vibration is a wonderful thing, and over 40 years of use this camera will need less shutter maintenance than others for that very reason. However, it really does come down to that shutter speed dial in the position its at, which makes this camera truly an amazing tool in the hand. You can shoot in Manual while setting the aperture to whatever you like and use the shutter dial constantly to compensate, almost like setting the camera in a manual-ish Aperture Priority. Why is this a big deal? Well I shoot a lot of situations where I will put 20-30 frames on a particular moment, mostly close proximity stuff, and ultimately it means you have consistency in your depth of field throughout the shooting session -without having to remove you eye from the camera. These moments really only last at most 5 minutes, so having that ability to stay mentally focussed on the subject and having that fluidity is truly a game changer. I think that the Canon EF is the single best designed camera that they have made because of this. Its as close to shooting Leica rangefinder as you will get in an SLR. There are other cameras that are similar, but the combination of full VF disclosure and that shutter dial position is simply hard to beat.
And huge Diff is you can use normal 1.5v alkaline batteries. My F1 you can not get proper 1.3 v mercury batteries. Huge diff in the meter working properly.
where did you order the batteries
Just nosing around, and found this review. Got my first EF in '78, lost it 9 years later and eventually got 2 more. It has always been the love of my photographic life. Rock solid, great handling (if you're OK with a large heavy SLR), and all sorts of really well-thought-out features.
A couple of points though: you don't "switch on the flash sync"; what that switch is to turn off the meter so that if you are just using flash, the battery isn't being drained (you have to turn on the power switch to be able to fire the shutter). Also, when advancing to frame 1, you just wind 3 times without having to fire the shutter – good if you're in a hurry and saves your shutter.
The EF takes FD lenses for full-aperture metering, but can also take the older FL lenses for stopped-down metering, using the notch in the viewfinder aperture scale – and the viewfinder lets you see both shutter speed and selected aperture.
A nice touch (if unnecessary) is that the 15 & 30 seconds speeds are actually 16 & 32, following the doubling sequence from 1 sec.
I bought an EF because it's unique in many ways-the square Copal electro-mechanical shutter, the regulated circuit that allows the use of 1.5 volt batteries, and the fact that it's kinda rare. Mine looks so good cosmetically I'll probably not use it much afraid of putting scratches on it. I have other cameras that are rough looking that I don't mind using.