canon FP

[paulo_trindade]

<p>Hi,collectors and others<br>

In 1964,was made the canon FP,who knows how many FP cameras was made?.<br>

note:I have two,137299 with FP meter and 162685, and i never saw a black version fp.<br>

Thanks.</p>

[jim_bielecki1]

<p>I don't think that Canon ever made public production numbers for the FP (or any classic SLR for that matter). With a serial number of 162685, we know that Canon made at least 62,685 FP cameras.</p>

<p>Peter Dechert, in his Canon SLR book, states that the FP was in production from September, 1964 until March, 1966. </p>

<p>The Canon Museum website states that Canon did make black FP cameras.</p>

[rick_janes]

When I think of unusual Canons the FP comes to mind: a meterless body with an available clip-on meter accessory!

How very odd, given that its metered FX sister came to market months earlier...a bit of a noggin-scratcher, that. And I

wonder what an FP plus accessory meter cost compared to the FX? Surely FP sales were much fewer, and they seem much rarer today.

As a marketing non sequiteur by Canon it rivals their EF-M, the manual focus-only body made for EF series lenses.

[gordon_yee]

<p>Retail prices from a Bell & Howell catalog from around 1966:</p>

 

<ul>

<li>Canon FX body only $113.95 (chrome)</li>

<li>Canon FP body only $73.95 (chrome); detachable FP CdS meter $29.95</li>

<li>Canon Pellix-QL body only $223.95 in chrome, $243.95 in black</li>

<li>Canon FT-QL body only $163.95 in chrome, $183.95 in black</li>

<li>Canonet QL 1.9E $99.95</li>

</ul>

<p>I suspect that the FP meter is much, much rarer than the camera itself.</p>

[jim_bielecki1]

<p>Actually I think Canon marketed the FP as a "pro" camera (hence the "P"). </p>

<p>This was (sort of) Canon's version of the plain-prism Nikon F. </p>

<p>Many, many years ago, I recall seeing a picture of a combat photographer in Viet Nam with a few Canon FPs' hanging around his neck. I remember being surprised because most combat photographers of the day used Leica Ms' or Nikon Fs'.</p>

[paulo_trindade]

<p>Thanks everybody for your answers,and another question:i have the canon FP meter,for the FP camera,the canon booster for the Pellix and FT and FTb,and the booster T finder for the F-1,are only these or canon made more?</p>

[jim_bielecki1]

<p>Your collection of accessory meters for FL and FD Canons looks to be complete. The only addition I can think of would be the Servo EE finder (for automation) for the original Canon F-1 and the AE finder for the F-1N.</p>

[thomas_goehler]

<p>The FP was indeed marketed as a professional camera. Pros at that time did not trust built-in metres, that's why the FP was not equipped with one.</p>

[awahlster]

<p>he doesn't have the waist level finder or the speedfinder for the F-1 and F1n or the two waist level finders and the sports finder for the New F1</p>