Next Canon FD Camera - Recommendations?

I have used/tested all of the A series and all but the cheapest of the T series (most of the reports are on this site). I have NOT used any of the F models (and I hope not to, since this 'bug' as already taken me too far.....

In my opinion, the T90 is quite simply the finest film camera ever made, bar none that I have tried--and I have tried a lot (GAS pains). HOWEVER, if it is not used frequently it can, and probably will, freeze up with the dread EEE error (magnet sticks).

A more likely practical camera may well be the A-1, and it would probably be more familiar in use than the T90 (which is basically a EOS camera without AF).

Frankly, a very inexpensive and more than just acceptable, camera is the AE-1 Program.

Speaking of the AE-1 Program, in one area it has an advantage over the A-1 -- user interchangeable focusing screens.

Hmmm... My recommendation would be to get the "F-1, Jr.": the FTbn. It is ergonomically (the eveready cases are interchangeable, even) and operationally similar to the F-1 (original). It's like having a point-and-shoot version of the F-1. It is just as robust and uses the same metering system.

 

Like Stephen Morris, I prefer sticking with the F-series Canons. The EF is nice but, having started with and "grown up" with an FT, I never liked the bottom-center weighted metering pattern.

I'm with you, Steven. I didn't start with an FTb, but it was the camera that taught me photography. Mine became the springboard to the original F-1, a natural evolution.