cadillacmike

<p>That's funny Jim!</p>

<p>Gotta agree with Ivan. Did <strong>nikon</strong> ever make a Tilt <strong>and</strong> Shift lens? or a real swivel <strong>Speed Finder</strong>? <strong>Fluorite</strong> lenses? Super high speed <strong>Aspherical</strong> lenses in the as early as 1971? The <strong>Amazing</strong> 300mm F 2.8 and 400mm F2.8 lenses? Need I go on???...</p>

<p>^^ That's what we refer to as percussive maintenance!</p>

<p>Sometimes it actually works!</p>

<p>Are T90 shutter magnet problems fixable (at a reasonable cost)?<br>

One of mine has this. I don't want to junk it, but then again...</p>

<p>Thomas, when i get home in the fall, I'll have the AE-1 and AT-1 looked at. I'm not taking them apart by myself. I go back about 30 years with Canon equipment and have seen most of the good, bad and ugly.</p>

<p>While Canon didn't make marked A-series commemoratives like they did with the F-1, they did package and sell the AE-1 and AT-1 in special Lake Placid Olympic boxes (along with the 50/1.4 and 50/1.8 lenses). I have a matching boxed set Lake Placid AT-1. I missed out on a similar AE-1 set. (still looking) There's the outer box and the camera box and lens box.</p>

<p>Similarly for the 1984 Los Angeles games there were A-1 and AE-1 Program sets. Both of which I have. The A-1 set has a 50/1,4. all the rest same came with 50/1.8s. A few of these have the original warranty cards with them.</p>

<p>I have not seen LP A-1 or LA AE-1 box sets but it is conceivable that they exist.</p>

<p>You can also verify by the camera dates. Summer 79 to Feb-Mar 80 are valid dates for LP while Oct 83 thru Jul 84 are valid dates for LA.</p>

<p>F-1s are or course easy to recognize, but you still need to look at the serial number AND date codes, because the F-1 Top plate is in 2 sections. I have seen fakes. Los Angeles are much to verify with all the gold lettering. Beware of an LA F-1 with a white lettering finder!!! I have all the F-1s (8 in total) and LA & LP boxes, but the one Montreal boxed F-1 i ever came across went too high for my tastes back then, although I now wish I had bought it.</p>

 

<p>Yeah the backwards nikon mount was and is strange. but that's not why I went to Canon. Canon's FD mount introduced in late 1970 (I have some lenses built then) could support - with no further changes- Shutter preferred AE, Aperture preferred AE, Full Programmed AE (with multiple selectable programs) all with no further changes!!<br>

It took nikon 5 years to get aperture preferred AE, and then later still to get shutter preferred AE and programmed AE. And this took 3 lens mount changes. Mounting an older pre-AI era lens on an old F with the 3 older photomic heads was a royal PITA. The Fs were klunky in use and appearance, especially the F, but the F2 kludge of an AE attachment was laughable. This, an obvious attempt to catch up to Canon's Servo EE Finder, actually fit over the lens' aperture ring and physically turned the ring for exposure control! That' still elicits a howl when i think of it. Even Minolta was way ahead of nikon in this regard. So was Topcon for that matter back in the late 60s, when it came to meter coupling the lens to the camera.<br>

Sure I'm none too pleased with Canon for dropping the FD line and making it difficult (but not impossible) to use FD lenses at infinity focus on EOS bodies, but I still use the FD glass on several F, A, ad not T series bodies. They were and are of the highest possible quality.<br>

Notice the proper use of all lower case when referring to nikon. ;-)</p>

<p>The A-1 was better except for the screens. The AE-1 Program had laser matte screens, introduced in 1980. Much brighter, although existing A-1 screens can be "bright screened".</p>

<p>Thomas, where is your "proven fact" proof? <br>

I have an AE-1 than had it and recently got a Lake Placid AT-1 that has it, and there are documented items onilne with the other A-series models having the squeak, which is actually a mirror bearing lubrication problem not a shutter problem.</p>

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<p>While the glass "carrier" aka the camera body may be secondary, having a nice looking one is always better. I concentrated on the black F-bodies and have some nice ones, but they did cost more than $10. FTb , EF and F-1 have almost identical baseplate sizes (F-1 being a tad bigger) so all will fit easily in an F-1 case. FTbs will also fit in the older FT semi-hard cases.</p>

<p>The only source I know for a replacement Pellix mirror is another Pellix!<br>

I had to buy a couple basket cases just to get good mirrors for otherwise nice bodies.</p>

<p>I'm not going to state how much FD gear I have, only that it's more than my wife wants me to have! ;-)<br>

Thomas, <strong>All</strong> A-series have the same mirror & shutter mechanism and are all equally prone to the 'A-series squeak" but <strong>Only</strong> A-series cameras can get it. <br>

<br />Robb, Match needle especially with an FTb or F-1 is the way to go! Either model F-1 but it's more fun with a PE screen if you have the New F-1. <br>

Heavy??? Try adding a Motor Drive MF and SL 533G flash, then you can call it heavy.</p>

<p>The T50 came out with the SpeedLite 244T, The SL 277T came out with the T70. SL 299T didn't come out with a camera but it works great on any F, A, or T series camera except the T90. The SL 300TL is basically the TTL version of the 299T for the T90, and has a unique 2nd curtain synch mode!</p>

<p>While you can use any A or G series flash on the T50, you have to set it on auto or program because the T50 has no manual mode. The same goes for the AV-1.</p>

<p>Bill, P 28 of a mid 70s manual shows the meter needle aligned with the "meter index". It doesn't explicitly state to align them, but the viewfinder graphic clearly shows the needle aligned to the meter index, which is also described on P 13. Not abundantly clear, but not completely cryptic either.<br>

here:<br>

http://www.cameramanuals.org/canon_pdf/canon_f1_winder.pdf</p>

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<p>Jamie, look up ebay for completed items and you'll get a good idea.</p>

<p>I reported it I'll check to see if it is still there.</p>

<p>Ebay NEVER responds to the user who reports items. the automated ack even states as such.</p>

<p>A black slide would mean no exposure. Sounds to me the shutter is not opening. Did you try 1 frame with the suspect lens followed by 1 frame with a different lens?</p>

<p>Or the mirror is not going up! Might there be something blocking the mirror???</p>

 

<p>To my knowledge, backed up by docs from a former senior rep at Canon, Canon never made an SLR 40mm lens, so who's lens was on it.</p>

<p>The Snell book was rife with errors. I did not know of the linked incident.<br>

The notation in the Dechert book on F-1s with a serial number lower than 200,000 needing a modification for use with the Motor Drive MF is CORRECT. The Motor drive MF manuals state as such and I have the original Camera Craftsman magazines from the 73 or 74 that detail the exact changes made (all under the bottom plate). There is a minute change of triggering a shutter jam if you run one with no lens on it. Something like that.<br>

There was a different Shipman book each year from 1977 through 1984 ( I have all plus the 1987 book with the T90), I think 3 or 4 years would cover all the different cameras. </p>

 

<p>Mike M, I'm with you on the F-1 shutter's sound, all three versions. It's very distinctive, The earlier F-series and the entire A- series all had cloth shutters and the EF had that vertical Copal shutter, thus the F-1s were the only ones with the titanium fol shutters. <br>

There's nothing like the F-1. I think some T series and newer EOS bodies actually have plastic shutters?!? </p>

<p>Canon originally intended to make the TS 35mm an AL lens, but it ended up being too difficult (expensive), and it wasn't needed. I have some early 1970 and 1971 literature with the same wording.</p>

<p>The same literature also shows the 17mm F4 with a giant chrome front barrel, but that never made it into production either. My April 1971 FD 17mm F4 has an all black front barrel. It also shows the 135mm RF 2.5 and 200mm F4 with chrome accents on their built in hoods - none of which made it into production either. Too bad, those would have been cool. I have all the chrome nose era FDs (except the FE 7.5mm), and the ones without standard 55 or 58mm front threads and bayonet hood mounts don't really have "chrome noses", but they are part of the original FD lineup.</p>

<p>New FD version? To my knowledge this lens always had the breech ring, although i might be mistaken.</p>

<p>You would use it on M with say an older CanonFlex body, which had an incompatible auto-aperture linkage.<br>

Otherwise keep it on A - which is NOT the same as the A (or o) mark on FD lenses.</p>

<p>Changing the screen in an A-1 is actually easier then finding a screen for it nowadays.<br>

I agree an F-1 any type would be easier, especially an old F-1 with the Booster T Finder and a L-C or L-D screen would do quite well. For the new F-1 you'd want a PJ screen.</p>

<p>I think I bought that one last year, Jim. I got a partial refund for the mirror and bought a jammed chrome one for the mirror, but I haven't replaced it yet, because i got deployed again. That was a nice black one. The one last week was too brassed up for me.</p>

<p>Interesting how the changeover from the mechanical F-bodies to the electronic A-bodies completely reversed the sales trends.<br /> <br /> The mechanical match needle FTb & FTbn vastly outsold the mechanical (except for the slow shutter speeds) auto-exposure EF, but the exact opposite was true for the A-series. <br /> The auto exposure AE-1 sold about 8 times as many as the match needle AT-1. Yes, the EF was quite expensive back then, and yes it devoured batteries - especially if left on, but such a complete reversal was the ushering in of a new age in 35mm SLR where AE started to rule the day.</p>

<p>What info i have shows nearly 1.8 million FTbs (both models) vs. about 320,000 EFs. A-series is over 5.7 million AE-1s vs. 450,000 to maybe a little more than 1/2 million AT-1s.</p>

<p>Robb, re-pay the seller and keep the A-1. It's too nice to send back!</p>