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F4q Between Meter and Film Plane modern Most ssnsaiiolla/ tleve/o,bh1811t- In past 20 ysat;S newest cameras, lenses & important accessories ing rectangular collar and full focusing CANON PELLIX OR FT: Fresnel screen. OTHER FEATURES: WITH, WITHOUT PELLICLE Mercury battery-powered CdS exposure meter behind lens coupled to shutter speeds and aperture controls measures Va picture area at shooting aperture, instant return mirror, quick return aper­ Svps/"/JIV ~iJislJeQ ture, depth-of-field preview lever, mir­ ror lock-up lever, quick-loading film compac.f SLR. bOdy mechanism. PRICE: $239.95 with f/l.8 lens, $289.95 with f/l.4 lens, $324.95 with f/l.2 lens. Whether you're with it or agin it, undou6tedl one of the bi&gest sensa­ bons In S R camera des\~ns within tHe past 20 years IS the stationary mir­ ror Canon Pellix. While camera tech­ Supen'or lens nicians and knowledgeable photogra­ MANUFACTURER'S SPECIFICATIONS: phers argued possible SLR faults: flip­ mounfing Canon Pellix QL 35mm eye-level single­ ping mirrors, vibrations, loss of viewing lens reflex camera. LENS: Interchange­ at the instant of picture taking, Canon able breech-lock 50mm f/1.8 Canon went and did something about it. They methanism . FL, 50mm Canon f/l.4 FL, 58mm Can­ made a single-lens reflex with a sta­ on f/l.2 FL with stops to f/22, focus tionary mirror that did not move . Ergo: to 24 in. SHUTTER: Titanium foil focal no bl ink, no added vibration. p lane with speeds from 1 to 1/1000 But Canon didn't introduce the pel­ sec. plus B, FPX sync. VIEWING: Non­ licle mirror and coast on other more interchangeable eye-level prism with standard features. A radically different central grid, plus fine focusing rec­ flip-up meter in front of the focal lane tangular collar and full focusing Fresnel measures e cen ra Exclusive meferli1j; screen. OTHER FEATURES: Non-mov­ approXimate y . ot er ehmd-t e­ ing semi-transparent pellicle mirror, lens SlRfs to that time measured the measures ~3 mercury battery-powered CdS exposure Whole picture area. The pro-anti Pellix meter behind lens coupled to shutter battle was all but overlooked in the piCTure area speeds and aperture controls measures mad scramble to praise or damm the central Va picture area at shooting ' new metering system. aperture, quick return aperture, depth Even so, the pellicle mirror wouldn't of field preview lever, quick loading have settled any storms. It could only film mechanism. PRICE: $299.95 with create more waves, pro and con. Since f/1.8 lens, $349.95 with f/1.4 lens, the wafer thin stationary pellicle mir­ $384.95 with f/l.2 lens. ror in the Pellix split the light from the subject between film and viewfinder, All flew quick there had to be a light loss in both areas. The lens delivers approximately /oao'liJg reaT-lIre Va of an f/stop less light to the film and the finder is about 1/3 less brilliant easy 1'0 lise than standard mirror SLR finders even though special care and coatings had been applied to the Pellix prism to get maximum brilliance for viewing. Un­ doubtedly the Pellix finder is less bright than those in other Canon SLR's with the same lens and a standard rapid return mirror. Moreover, the Pellix's out of focus image areas in the finder Canon FT QL 35mm eye-level single-lens seemed to have a mushy, flary char­ reflex camera. LENS: Interchangeable acter with a loss of contrast. If this 50mm f/l.8 Canon FL, 50mm f/l.4 was visible in the finder, what was Canon FL, 58mm f/l.2 Canon FL with happening on the film? Was it logical stops to f/22, focus to 24 in. SHUTTER: that something in the nature of sharp­ Cloth focal plane with speeds from 1 to ness as well as aperture speed must be 1/1000 sec. plus B, FPX sync. VIEW­ lost when light from a lens entered and ing: Non-interchangeable eye-level passed through a pellicle on its way to prism with central grid plus fine focus- the film? Reprint from August Edition of Modern Photography. Editorial Comments made by Bell & Howell. While MODERN's technicians wres­ same metal foil shutter material used tled with these mighty problems, whi Ie in the rangefinder Canon cameras. The its readers grew more impatient, Canon instant return mirror on the FT, of introduced a newer version of the Pel­ course, protects its cloth shutter from q lix, the Ql, with a quick loading sys­ any such possibilities. Shutter noise tem and stop-down aperture lock. But (about average) of both cameras is f4 between meter even more significant was the an­ virtually identical despite the fact that nouncement of the new Canon FT, al­ the FT has a cloth shutter and a rapid and film plane­ most the spitting image of the Pellix return mirror and the Pellix has a metal but $60 less expensive and-with a shutter and a fixed mirror. "remarkeIJ/y sma/I IN rapid return mirror instead of a fixed We were surprised to notice that pellicle. With both cameras at hand locking the FT's mirror in the up posi­ for testing we were in a far better po­ tion (used to insert the deep-set 19mm sition to analyze the Pellix with sta­ f/3.5 lens or to minimize vibration tionary mirror and compare results for scientific work) made virtually no with it directly against a camera hav­ alteration in shutter noise. ing a standard instant return mirror. There is one other small difference The fact that the Canon FT also has a of controls between the two cameras, semi-spot meter reading system that caused by mirror differences. The Pel­ measures % the picture area but uses lix's eyepiece can be closed off by a different metering device added an­ turning the collar around the rewind other possible interesting comparison. lever, while there is no such control The Canon FT and Pellix have per­ on the FT. This, however, is a logical haps more in common than they have difference since there is some possibil­ differences. Both share superbly ity of direct light entering the Pellix's ,____ finished, rather compact SlR body eyepiece when the camera is mounted originally introduced in the Canon FX on a tripod. Such light could affect (still in the line, by the way, at a tempt­ the picture, however. In normal condi­ ing $189.95 with f / 1.8 lens. See Mod­ tions, with the Pellix held at eye level, ern Tests, June 1965 issue for the we found there was less chance of Less meier error FX report). The traditional Canon large meter error occurring oecause of back diameter (1 'l's in.) breech-lock lens light than with most thru-Iens meter #J811 mos-! tlJrU-/6I1s mount (you connect lens and body, cameras. then twist an outer knurled ring about The FT allows virtually no extraneous meter cameras 45 ° to lock them together) is used . In light from the finder to affect the ' MODERN's opinion, the breech lock Is meter, according to our tests and with "","--- a superior lens mounting mechanism. the rapid return mirror as protection, It can never come loose. if and when no light could possibly strike the film there is some slight wear or loosening from the eyepiece during exposure. of the mount lip, the turning outer ring Therefore the FT needs no eyepiece takes up the slack and keeps it as light shield. tight as ever. It's a design somewhat simi lar to that used on the breeches of giant cannons-for the same reason. The handy swing back of previous Canon SlRfs has been made handler with the mcluslon of the QL loadmg system used on the Canonet range- 1Iri'CIer cameras. Just lay the tip on the film leader across the film plane, bring down the Ql mechanism to hold it in place and shut the back. With judicious I care, you should be able to squeeze in one more frame of film than with a standard loading camera, provided you start at the last frame counter's dot before frame 1. The addition of -~1 the Ql incidentally has caused only a tiny rounding of the camera back which you can barely notice. Canon Pellix QL The Pellix and FT are not only the RemarKably gooo' same size, they are virtually the same The major differences between the weight. The FT weighs 1 lb. 10 oz., the two cameras become evident when you Pellix 112 oz. more. Both cameras have hold them up to eye level. Although readings the same ratcheted 174 0 rapid wind both show the same life sized view with lever, clearly marked top shutter speed the 50mm lens, the Pellix view is dial (black on chrome with the Pellix, noticeably darker, less contrasty, and white numerals on black for the FT) in the out of focus areas, rather diffuse. plus spring loaded outer rim which The fine focusing rectangle of the governs the ASA settings of the built­ Pellix is virtually the same brightness AI~w Booster ______ in meters (ASA 25 to 2000). While the as the rest of the screen while the .,/ focal plane shutter mecfl anisms of slightly larger and more elongated meter olli-measures both cameras seem identical, the Pellix fine focusing screen of the FT is pro­ is made of titanium foil and the FT nouncedly darker than the surrounding of cloth.
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