Canon Elan IIe with Tamron 28-75.

[Ko.Fe.]

The plastic 22-55 lens which I purchased for Canon 300E came attached to Canon Elan IIe. It was with dead battery and sold under "It worked last time I used it" scenario.
I had this battery at home and camera was working fine for first day and then.. low battery after shutter release and mirror up. I had to press shutter one more time to get it back. Googled it and first return was new battery.
Changed the battery, same. It was something holding the shutter blades.
I started to google - stuck shutter blades and sure enough. Famous bug for Elan cameras. Leaky shutter buffer. Another google search how to clean it.
One radical solution was to tear camera apart and remove it from removed shutter. But most common was to stuck wet cotton swabs between shutter blades.
And third to clean where leaky shutter buffer is. I didn't used cotton swabs, but sensor cleaning swabs and cleaning tissue with alcohol. And for the place where buffer is I used heavy photo paper for inkjets.
First cleaning was not sufficient, but after second one shutter works again.

It is interesting camera. Not as heavy and big as EOS 3, but has metal lens mount, control wheel and shutter speed 1/4000. And date insertion like on P&S 🙂.

I have Tamron 28-75 2.8 lens on it and together it is heavy kit for me.
I used it with Kodak 50D @20 in Rodinal.

IIe means it has focus eye control. It works, but here is just three AF points.
Middle, left and right.
If any of my daughters will decide to use another film camera, I will suggest this one.

 

[Steve M.]

That's a good lens. I like the look. It's strangely very similar to Tri-X in D76.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Good to hear. Kodak 50D expired is my backup plan for BW film photography. Or any cinefilm I could find cheap.

This is how darkroom print looks like from this film negative:

Not so bad for film expired decade or so ago, IMO.

This lens was known to be in use in some photo businesses for school photos and such.
While I used Canon FF digital ones, it was this lens or 50L, with rare use of 70-200 F4 L.
They all worked well as the team.

 

[Dayrell bishop]

I also like the look of the pictures , very nice tones and sharp.

 

[valdas]

Kodak 50D is a color film, so how does it print? Exposure, contrast - is it very different from BW film printing in terms of time adjustments?

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Yes, it is about two minutes exposure and extra contrasty filters for MG paper to get result as shown on street print. It is regular Ilford RF with regular Ilford filter 4.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

This weekend I gave this EOS Elan IIe with lens it came to me to one local student, until his parents will figure out which camera he needs.

I managed to use EF 22-55 lens before I gave it with camera.

at 55mm:

at 22mm:

I also gave the film I used for this pictures. Kodak 50D. To me it works fine in Rodinal.

For now I have our daughter EF 16-35 II f2.8 L lens. Then it is mounted on EOS 300, I need to hold this big lens, not the camera.

 

[skucera]

I must admit I like my Elan IIe. I bought it to replace an EOS 650 that broke years ago. The eye control is a little eerie the way the metering indicator lights up at the third of the view my eye is actually pointed at, and irritating if I'm checking my framing, but want to meter in another part of the subject area. I use the original kit zoom lens that came used on it. It makes beautiful pictures, though, really beautiful....


Scott