Happiness is a new black paint camera....

[venchka]

...that Mrs. Wayne found at a garage sale. Imagine. A spousal unit buying a camera for her husband. Wonderful. All for the whopping sum of $17.50. 😉

No photos of the cute little critter yet. I guess I'll have to break out R2D2 and try once more to make a decent product shot. I really S#ck at product photos.

What is it you ask? A pristine black enamel Canon A-1 with a 50mm/1.8 S.C. lens. I can't get over how small it is. Almost too small. My black paint Canon EF looks huge next to tha A-1. I am curious to put it beside a friend's Olympus OM-1 for comparison. The lens of course seems huge. too bad we can't we can't put our compact rangefinder lenses on these bodies. I have a black paint Konica 35mm/2.0 UC-Hexanon that would be a perfect size for the A-1.

I will load it up and see what happens.

ps: Black enamel painted cameras and lenses look so NICE! The finish has nothing to do with the photos. It does make me smile everytime I see and hold it. :wink:

 

[Dr Gaspar]

No bang bang, just shoot shoot =)

Grats!

 

[venchka]

I plan to shoot shoot. Soon.

 

[AFenvy]

Congratulations! A good find like that always feels good.

On a side note, everyone seems to go nuts for the black cameras, and I always seem to get black ones but wish I could have gotten a chrome one! I must be crazy.

 

[venchka]

The camera came with a repair ticket from '92 for a CLA & shutter fix. I'll look at the seals tonight. The back closes with reassuring pressure from my thumb. I think it's ok.

I'm tempted to look for a motor. Just to add some heft to the camera. It feels like Mrs. Wayne's Nikon S8100 compared to the hulking mass of the Canon 1D MkIII, a.k.a. R2D2.

Major DROOL on the 50/1.2 L. I shall be content with 4 lesser Canon 50mm lenses: 1.8 x 2, 1.4 and 3.5 Macro. Grinning.

 

[Chris101]

I have a serious soft spot for the A-1. It was the first camera I bought for myself, back in 82 or 83. Still have it.

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You are lucky! I bought two in 82, but now they belong to somebody else. And not with my permission. Grrrr.

 

[venchka]

Thanks for the photos. I was offered an A-1 about 5 years ago. I declined. Thought otherwise later. When Lisa called and said she had an A-1 in her hands and asked if I interested I didn't hesitate.
The jury is still out on the T50 with a genuine 1984 Olympics 50mm lens that she found the next week.
It's strange. I go to garage sales and never find anything. She found two cameras and similar lenses in a week.

 

[venchka]

...Truth be told, it may just be time for me to part company with most of my FD gear.

No doubt we should all think along those lines. However, I find it impossible to part with the EF and 50mm & 35mm lenses that I bought new in the mid-70s. If anything, I would dearly love to have a 100mm lens to go along with the 24 & 50.