What is your favorite Canon FD body?

[Fraser]

At the moment I have a couple of new f1, an ef and a1. Favs have always been the new f1, it's funny how so many people like the ef I always thought it too clunky but I do like the overhanging shutter speed dial. It's such a shame canon changed the lens mount as I would love to shoot some of the old fd glass on my 1dxs!

 

[Ezzie]

can I ask why?
just curious, no disrespect meant at all.

Because the T60 actually came after the T90, and is the last of the FD mount Canons.

 

[Kate-the-Great]

Because the T60 actually came after the T90, and is the last of the FD mount Canons.

The comment may also have had something to do with the T60's utter inferiority compared to the T90.

 

[bennyng]

I used to really enjoy using the AE-1 as my first SLR camera. Lately, the F-1n is my favorite.

Cheers,

 

[Kate-the-Great]

WOW! Can't get much more exotic in FD-land than an OD F1n and a 14mm L!

 

[mnutzer]

...

When a local photo dealer presented two green Canon ODF-1 he had imported directly from Japan, I got my nose flattened on his shop window.
But Canon never produced any color matching green lenses.
So it was better to forget that I could afford only two used FtBn, one after all a black one.
The A-1 was at that time my universal camera, until the center-weighted integral exposure measurement became inaccurate for photography on slide films.
Particularly in portrait format the different weightings of the exposure measurement of the two sides disturbed.
When Canon canceled its successful FD system and introduced the incompatible, misshaped and initially imprecise EOS system, I switched to Leica M - especially for landscapes.

 

[Anthony Harvey]

T90. I agree with CameraQuest and Raid, one of the very best SLR cameras. I got most fun, and quite a few good images, using the 35/2 FD, another brilliant lens, every bit as good as my Summicron 35/2. I found the 50/1.4 a brilliant lens but a little too contrasty for my taste with Kodachrome 64 in sunlight: it was as if a magical "vivid" button had been turned on - there was a brilliance to the colour slides - but it lost some shadow detail that I wanted to keep.

The metering system was very accurate. I experimented with all the various metering options but in the end settled for centre weighted average, and it never let me down.

The problem for me was the reliability of the shutter. It just stopped working after a few years (only serious amateur use though) and had to be replaced. Later I moved to auto focus cameras, initially Canon and later Nikon F100 and F6, but I still have fond memories of the T90. It was 100% reliable in getting the images I wanted until the shutter failed.

Anthony

 

[Timmyjoe]

I used to really enjoy using the AE-1 as my first SLR camera. Lately, the F-1n is my favorite.

Cheers,

Always thought those Olive Green F1n's were awesome. Wish there were more of them around.

Best,
-Tim

 

[Chubberino]

My A-1 is the best to me

 

[Mackinaw]

Always thought those Olive Green F1n's were awesome. Wish there were more of them around.

Only 2002 were made I understand.

I picked one up from an Australian collector many years back. I had no intention of buying the camera, but because it had a dent on the prism, he made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I use it on occasion, but not much.

Jim B.

 

[beltz6]

My first SLR, purchased new in the late 70s, was an AT-1. I still use it every now and then. It wasn't nearly as popular as the AE-1, but I've always been content not having any auto exposure modes.

 

[Roger Hicks]

F1, n or not. Why anything else?

Cheers,

R.

 

[BillBingham2]

Handled many, used a few, never owned one (I'm a Nikon-geek).

I'd have two EFs. What a wonderful camera.

B2 (;->

 

[Chubberino]

Now you guys are making me look up F1N's. Dammit

 

[Uncle Bill]

Three-way tie with the F-1N, FTb and EF.

 

[Sid836]

Besides the Old F-1, the New F-1.

 

[zhang xk]

EF is the only one that has a jewel bearing inside of all the cameras I have serviced. My list is EF, F1 original, A-1, FTb QL.

 

[Fraser]

New f1 and A1.

 

[Chris101]

The A1 and the A1. Back in the day, I had two of them, so I get to vote twice, right?

 

[GarageBoy]

Classic F1- my dad bought a beat up one to use his exakta to fd adapter. The all ball bearing everything advance and shutter is so smooth and the mirror is very nicely damped