Canon FD Photo of the Month: August 2015

<p>August! Hot! How about some hot photos, FD people! Note to newcomers: We include FL and earlier breach lock Canon SLRs and lenses. FD lenses on other bodies are welcomed.</p>

<p>I'll start out with some old, old long exposures made with a Canon EF and probably an FD 50/1.8. Film is Kodachrome 64. Exposure time is around 10 to 15 minutes. I gauged the time by setting the EF to 30 seconds and pushing the multi-exposure button when I rewound. I used a rickety Veblen tripod.</p>

<p>Here is the first.</p><div></div>

<p>Should have said this is set in the Richmond District in San Francisco, c. 1979-1980.</p>

<p>Here is the second.</p><div></div>

<p>And the last. Same time and place.</p><div></div>

<p>Hi Alex,<br>

I like the first shot particularly - the delivery van brake lights really activate it!<br>

By coincidence, this month I had also planned to show an old night image from many years back - this is ALL multi-exposure on one single frame using the A-1's lever (no Photoshop here)...the tricky thing was remembering which bits of the frame I had already used. I wasn't sure what would be suitable for the all-important center and left it until last, but then found the "Tengu-san" restaurant sign which seemed to do the trick. Better than a dry-cleaning sign anyway!</p>

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<p>Thanks, Ashley. I like your shot with the tengu very much. Ah, those pre-Photoshop days. You to use your imagination.</p>

<p><strong>Canon FDn 80-200/4.0-L<br /><br />Spot Metering made the low light / shady woods background disappear for a portrait effect of this Whitetail Buck<br /></strong><br>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/DEER/072615%20Portrait%20Wide%20Racked%206%20pointer%2027ACPBS50_zpsfksuwryq.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Daimler SP250</p><div></div>

<p>This character owned a vintage organ player, possibly steam powered</p>

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<p>Darn, organ owners photo should read FD35mm f2 not 50mm1.2L</p>

<p>Throw back Saturday. I took this at a Canon demo back in 1975 at a local camera shop (remember camera shops?). I put the-then newly introduced FD 24/1.4 on my FTb and took the pic. Wide open and on Tri-x (if my memory is correct).</p>

<p><img src="http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/296315-1/adray1.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="655" /></p>

 

<p>Wow....so YOU took that frame eh.?<br>

Nicely done. I thought it was an old Canon Ad from a magazine.......</p>

I am so much enjoying all the Classic FD shown so far: Alex, you're bringing back fond memories of strolling SF

neighborhoods after dark, toting an F-1 with K64 and metal tripod, cold hands and reciprocity failure be damned!

 

Jim, where was that camera shop? I recall a similar Canon demo at Brooks Camera in SF. Ironically, most of the stuff

seen on the counter in your shot is on my shelf today: like the pair of FL Fluorites, 300/5.6 and 500/5.6! Those slick full

color Canon System brochures were free for a reason.

<p>Rick, the camera shop was called Adray Camera, in Dearborn, Michigan. It was an absolutely superb full-featured camera shop where you could buy anything you could imagine. It was even quite successful in the digital/big-box store-era (great customer service), but the owner chose to retire, so it closed down a few years back. </p>

<p>All the manufacturers would send around factory reps in those days. Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Minolta, you name it. Besides sampling new equipment, there were also bargains to be had. I was in college then, and dead-broke, so I just stopped by to try the newest and latest stuff. Sadly, 1975 was the last time I held a FD24/1.4 lens. </p>

<p>Cool stuff guys! August is looking good! :)</p>

 

<p>Canon F-1 (original) with FD 15mm fisheye on Ektar 100 film.</p>

<p><img src="http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/414868-1/Balloons1.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="582" /></p>

<p><strong>Another good Canon FDn lens...the 50-135/3.5</strong><br>

<strong><br />Twin Buck Fawns nursing<br /></strong><br>

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Really great shots everyone and wonderful commentary.

<p>Back in June I posted a question about the Chrome Nose 50mm 1.2. Bought the lens not the camera. Here we go.</p><div></div>

<p>Great shots this week, guys! </p>

<p>Jim, the colour rendition and dynamic range of that Ektar 100 is remarkable. I only wish that modern digital sensors had the same DR.</p>

<p>Anyway, I have several rolls of it in my fridge, and you've inspired me to load a roll into one of my Canon F-1's, which I haven't done in quite some time. Thanks! </p>

<p>Mark---Ektar 100 really is a wonderful film, but it is fussy. But if you nail the exposure, the colors just pop.</p>

<p>And note the long shadows. This pic was taken in the evening which helped to add even more warmness to the scene.</p>

<p><img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/shaolin95/DSC00642_C1_Small_newBampW_zpsu94gft6l.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="1024" /><br />Taken with Canon FD 100mm F2 or 200mm F2.8...sorry cant recall which of the two if I had to choose, the 100mm sounds more like it since he was not too far.<br>

It was during a Folkfest show, a pretty fun event overall.</p>

I am amazed. Really great photography, everyone.

<p><strong>Canon FDn 200/4.0 Macro Lens</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>Tulip Tree Silk Moth.....4+3/4" wingspan<br /></strong><br /> <br /> <strong><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/INSECTS/BUTTERFLIES/080515%20Tulip%20Tree%20Silk%20Moth%20on%20PeachesAC_PBS50_zpsgf2wsegj.jpg" alt="" /></strong></p>

<p>Nice shot Bill. Love the colors.</p>

<p>One more from the Folkfest..this one is form the Taiwan dancing team.<br /><br /><img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/shaolin95/DSC00605_C1F_zpsonaqgjbv.jpg" alt="" width="708" height="1024" /><br>

Cannot recall the lens but probably the FD 200mm F2.8 since the 100mm and 400mm would have been very different from that section. :)</p>