佳能敢動老虎 佳能new f1 膠片相機評測

Hello and welcome to Analog Insights In today's episode, Greg and I review the Canon New F1 which was Canon's third professional single-lens reflex camera for the 35mm format introduced in 1981 and allegedly produced until 1992 and still sold until 1994 One important historical context, and it is a little bit confusing because the original Canon F1 introduced in 1970 carries the same name and a very similar look and then saw an update in 1976 as the Canon F1N and the camera that we are discussing here today is the so-called Canon New F1 which in many ways is a more advanced camera and shouldn't be compared directly to those because it comes with different viewfinders and a couple of different features and it's in the same lineage and it also features the original Canon FD mount introduced in 1970 but it is a different camera with a confusing name and I've fallen into the same trap here that I confused the two different cameras at first So we're discussing the Canon New F1 in this review and we took the camera out as always for a photo walk in and around Würzburg In the morning when it was still overcast we shot some Lomochrome Color 92 which we had reviewed here on the channel before and then later during the day when there was more light available we switched to Ilford Delta 100 and threw in some wide open shots because we got the unique opportunity to test the legendary 50mm F1.2 Canon lens and I really enjoyed shooting that and especially I'm shooting it wide open with the Delta 100 We got some really nice results and we can't wait to share them with you So let's take a closer look at the features, specialties, accessories and lenses for this very nice Canon New F1 So what about the features, lenses and accessories The Canon New F1 came only in black and is really built to last The all metal construction weighs around 795 grams and it comes with a horizontally travelling focal plane shutter made of titanium which was quite advanced of course for the time and what I found interesting is that there is an electronically controlled shutter speed range between 8 seconds and 1.6 of a second and a mechanically controlled range between 1.9 of a second and 1.2 of a second There is also an ISO dial here with a range between ISO 6 to 6400 and the same dial also features an exposure compensation mode and both of them have a lock function which prevents you from accidentally turning them so you really need to make an effort in order to set your ISO or exposure compensation and then of course it makes sense to return it to the original setting The camera features an aperture priority shutter priority and manual mode and the camera also comes with a self timer a film rewind lever and even an eyepiece shutter to avoid stray light for longer exposure so you can really see they threw in a couple of pro features here that we wouldn't see on any kind of regular single lens reflex camera for the amateur or consumer market The Canon F1 system is quite modular but please note that for the viewfinders these are only compatible between the first two iterations of the camera that I mentioned in the introduction and the Canon Nu F1 comes with five different viewfinders that are only working on this particular model here and we only had the so-called AE finder FN here available and in this particular case when using this finder setting the shutter speed dial to A engages a small switch on the finder which then puts the camera into an aperture priority auto exposure mode and the norm meter display on the right side then disappears from the viewfinder and you get an additional one at the bottom indicating the selected shutter speed from the automatic exposure mode depending on the aperture that you've selected and this is potentially a little bit confusing since the same piece of information can be then found at a different place The through-the-lens metering on the Canon F1 was quite advanced at the time and it's also important that you have a built-in hot shoe in this particular finder here and that it flashes things at one ninetyth of a second with a regular flash and the camera runs with a 4LR44 6V battery that is hidden behind the so-called action grip here which can be removed and then there can be a camera placed in here which I found interesting as a feature and where to place the battery and please also note that the camera runs without a battery which I found interesting so if they would ever drain and would ever die on you so to speak you can still use the mechanically controlled shutter speed range which I've mentioned before so everything between one ninetyth of a second and one two thousandth of a second still works The original Canon F1 as briefly touched on in the introduction introduced also the FD mount and in the time frame between 1970 and 1979 Canon went all in and introduced a total of 68 different lenses ranging from a 7.5mm all the way up to an 800mm focal length so quite impressive and also you can still use most earlier FL and R series lenses they can be mounted on the FD mount but they must be used in a stop down metering mode to work properly and what I found interesting basically when this camera here was introduced in 1981 it could tap into the entire pool of lenses that were already available so quite interesting for many professionals of course as can be expected from such a professional tool at the time it came with all sorts of other accessories and just to keep it short there was 13 different focusing screens available a motor wind and a bulk film chamber which allowed it to shoot up to 100 frames and the regular bag that I have here only features a memo holder that you could kind of expect but one interesting feature is hidden on the upper left corner here and this is the so-called meter mode selector and it comes with three different modes the normal mode means that when half-pressing the shutter you are activating the light meter and it's only activated then in the hold mode when half-pressing the shutter it is activated for 16 seconds which is great for manual reading of a scene and taking multiple readings and then the light mode is basically the same also on for 16 seconds but it also illuminates the aperture scale which is great for shooting in low light situations from a collector's perspective there were a couple of special editions of this camera for instance one for the US Navy and one for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles introduced in 1984 and then there was a special commemorative edition for the 50th anniversary of Canon coming with a golden Canon logo which of course is interesting from a collector's perspective So what about the handling and our personal impressions The Canon New F1 feels really really nice and solid but some of the controls are not particularly intuitive from today's perspective So for instance switching from the manual metering mode to the aperture priority mode was a little bit tricky to be honest and then it was a bit confusing in the viewfinder to see the same piece of information displayed somewhere else Of course you get used to that but arguably many other later cameras solved the same problem in a much better fashion And to be fair this is a professional camera and it should also be judged accordingly and theoretically we would argue this camera lives up to all sorts of photographic challenges so you can use it for close-up photography for really high speed photography with a 1-2 thousandth of a second shutter speed plus kind of bulk chamber for instance shooting 100 frames and so on and the motor wind So you can really really do a lot of things with this particular camera And our review here with one lens and one finder approach doesn't do it full justice I would say Arguably if this is the setup that you want it is a little bit too heavy and bulky for that And there are arguably a lot of smaller lighter and more compact cameras out there that are better suited for this purpose So I could think of models from Pentax Olympus Leica Minolta and many other manufacturers that would do a better job for the kind of use case that we had at hand here But again to be fair this is a professional camera coming with all sorts of additional features that we hardly used in our test And where you could argue if these are important to you then it's definitely worth taking a closer look at this particular camera and especially this version here from 1981 the more advanced more refined version that already has a really nice ISO range and all sorts of additional tested add-on features that really work nicely And also this bulky finder that it came with while it is relatively large it also is quite advanced and superior to many other finders that you would see on the market And having that built-in hot shoe plus through the lens metering is of course also very convenient if you're using it Also on the positive side and what I find worth mentioning is that the viewfinder was really really nice and made it easy to accurately focus the F1.2 lens that we tested here And the only thing that we noticed is that it seems like the Lomochrome Color 92 film didn't get as much light as it could have here and there So we got a couple of frames that felt a little bit underexposed and a little bit grainy like it could have used a bit more light And I'm a bit uncertain whether this is just the limitations of the film that become apparent here where we could have just overexposed it a bit more to give it more light Or whether the light meter got a little bit confused on that particular overcast morning by that soft box effect from the sky meeting a relatively dark ground floor I tend to think it's the limitations of the film and not so much the limitations of the metering Later during the day you can really see the great results that we got with the black and white film and the perfectly exposed negatives here So overall a really really nice camera and great setup So thank you very much for watching I hope you enjoyed this episode of Analog Insights and our review of the Canon New F1 A very solid and capable camera with all sorts of features through the lens metering a maximum aperture a maximum shutter speed of 1.2 thousandth of a second and a wide array of fantastic lenses and accessories If this fits your needs then it's a perfect camera If you have more basic needs then I think something much lighter and more compact will do as well If you enjoyed this episode please remember to like it and maybe even share it with your friends and if you want to see more videos like this please subscribe to our channel Jules, Greg and I really appreciate each and every subscriber coming our way So thanks for watching I hope to see you soon Bye