Has anyone ever heard of or seen one of these cameras?
Aug 9, 2018 06:50:35 #
manofhg wrote:
Here is one that sold on ebay for $50.
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/canon-t-5-us-post-exchange-35mm-slr-film-camera-body/262967852418?hash=item3d3a1afd82
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/canon-t-5-us-post-exchange-35mm-slr-film-camera-body/262967852418?hash=item3d3a1afd82
$50 or $500. Tough choice.
Sellers can ask whatever they want, but it is the buyer who decides what to spend. A collector might want this camera, and he would have to decide how much he wants to spend.
Aug 9, 2018 07:02:03 #
Aug 9, 2018 10:30:17 #
EoS_User wrote:
I was browsing eBay and found this camera for sale... (show quote)
Speaking of rare Canons, have you ever seen one of those? Hansa Canon, the beginning of Canon.
Aug 9, 2018 11:02:33 #
On the e-bay posting = he (she) is offering "Make an Offer".
I submitted One U.S.D. ($1.00) The shipping was listed at $11.+.
I submitted One U.S.D. ($1.00) The shipping was listed at $11.+.
Aug 9, 2018 14:20:18 #
Never seen one of these,wonder if they made it to New Zealand?
Aug 9, 2018 14:21:27 #
Aug 9, 2018 14:43:14 #
nadelewitz wrote:
I can tell just by the picture that it is some kind of cheap counterfeit knock-off of a Canon. Wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole, unless it cost $5.00 and I wanted a novelty.
I remember these cameras. They came before the T90 by Canon. More of an amateur class of camera they were. Canon was trying to perfect its auto everything class of cameras having a built in motor drive. I owned a T90 built in motor drive and a New F1 with motor drive. The T90 was my back up when i shot sports. When digital showed up I sold all of my 35mm cameras and the many lenses. Made my money back shooting with them and got the reward of selling them when I could make money on their sale. Own Nikon now. I finally sort of retired for a few years when I no longer could use my Bronica for weddings as film and processing labs went out overnight here in Cincinnati and the studios wanted me to shoot digital at the high cost it was in the early digital days. When digital showed up reasonably priced and 24 mpx I went back to work. Those early Canons it seemed everyone wanted one because it had a built in motor drive. The T90 sure could waste a lot of film. Only needed to burst 3 or 4 shots for hurdle jumpers or pole vaulters.
Aug 9, 2018 15:01:34 #
Aug 9, 2018 15:05:08 #
drklrd wrote:
I remember these cameras. They came before the T90... (show quote)
I have the T70 ... still use it, from time to time. Full film advance, and rewind, built in ... uses FD lenses only, though ... even have the Command Data back for it!
Aug 9, 2018 15:28:59 #
The "T-5" model number is in a different type font that any other early e.g. F-1 models. That alone should be suspicious.
Aug 9, 2018 15:47:05 #
jrh1354
Loc: Dayton, Ohio
Here's the listing from a reliable source: http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Canon/Canon-T50-(Canon-T5).html
Aug 9, 2018 16:00:38 #
jrh1354 wrote:
Here's the listing from a reliable source: http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Canon/Canon-T50-(Canon-T5).html
That's a dead link, JRH ....
Aug 9, 2018 16:21:57 #
amfoto1
Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
It is a REAL Canon camera, not a knockoff. It's a 35mm film camera from 1983, in fact... mostly plastic with FD lens mount, manual focus lenses only. It is a Program auto exposure only camera, with a built in power winder to advance the film (1.4 frames per second). The first model of their T series cameras, this was one of the first Canon to use a vertical travel, metal shutter (like pretty much all DSLRs now use).... a departure from the cloth, horizontal travel shutters that the A-series Canons (AE-1, A-1, AT-1, AV-1, etc.) used.
The T-5 shown is simply a less common variant of the more widely sold T50 model (as noted several times already... the T-5 was for sale only in military post exchanges). This particular camera's original Canon lens has been replaced by a cheaper Kalimar lens.
Later T70, T80 and especially the T90, were more upscale models. The T50 was superseded by the T60 in 1990, which turned out to be the very last FD mount camera Canon ever introduced. The EOS/EF cameras and lenses had been introduced in 1987 and the new cameras and mount were in full swing by the time the T60 ended production in 1993.
Actually it was preceded by the "Kwanon".
Virtually all cameras utilizing "miniature" 35mm roll film at that time were "Leica copies".
The T-5 shown is simply a less common variant of the more widely sold T50 model (as noted several times already... the T-5 was for sale only in military post exchanges). This particular camera's original Canon lens has been replaced by a cheaper Kalimar lens.
Later T70, T80 and especially the T90, were more upscale models. The T50 was superseded by the T60 in 1990, which turned out to be the very last FD mount camera Canon ever introduced. The EOS/EF cameras and lenses had been introduced in 1987 and the new cameras and mount were in full swing by the time the T60 ended production in 1993.
blacks2 wrote:
Speaking of rare Canons, have you ever seen one of those? Hansa Canon, the beginning of Canon.
Actually it was preceded by the "Kwanon".
Virtually all cameras utilizing "miniature" 35mm roll film at that time were "Leica copies".
Aug 9, 2018 16:33:38 #
Aug 9, 2018 16:34:58 #
amfoto1 wrote:
It is a REAL Canon camera, not a knockoff. It's a ... (show quote)
Not sure I follow that, Alan ... I bought my T70 NEW in 1989, to replace my stolen A-1. It took all the same FD lenses, I'd bought for the A-1.
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