Today, I’ll share my first impressions, trying to understand how the camera can fit with the way I take pictures. I listed a few links at the end of this post. There are countless descriptions and reviews of the T90 on the Internets. It’s a way for Canon to finish a long chapter of its history on a bright note, and for its faithful customers, one last opportunity to spend a lot of money on a high-end camera supporting the FL and FD lenses.Ī lot has been written about the T90, its genesis and its legacy. It is often seen as a test bed for the ideas successfully implemented in the EOS cameras. It was launched in February 1986, one year after the Minolta Maxxum 7000, and was only manufactured for a few months, leaving the spotlights in favor of the new EOS autofocus product line, presented in March 1987. It’s at the same time a formidable precursor of all the Canon high-end EOS film and digital cameras to come, a shameless copy of the Olympus OM-4 (metering system, OTF flash), the most elaborate of the Canon manual focus reflex cameras, and an evolutionary dead end. The T90 is a very interesting piece of hardware. Nikon had no manual focus SLR that interested me (I have used the Nikon FA and the Nikon FG in the past and did not like them, and the N2000 and N6000 are just mid level autofocus cameras deprived of autofocus). I could have splurged on an Olympus OM-4T, but $200.00 is a minimum for a working copy in so-so condition sourced in Japan, and the beautiful ones are many times more expensive. And at the same time, I did not want to spend money on a new family of lenses, which excluded Contax, Leica, Minolta and Pentax, and limited my choice to Canon, Nikon and Olympus. I wanted to play with more metering options (spot, multi-spot, highlight, shadows) than what the FE2 and the F3 have to offer. Recently I’ve been looking for a manual focus camera with a larger viewfinder than my Nikon FE2, and a bit more feature rich than the austere Nikon F3. The T90 is a disconcerting camera, and I was in for a few surprises. I opened the box, inserted batteries, mounted a lens, and swiched it on. The Postal Service just delivered a Canon T90 at my door step. Follow CamerAgX – a new life for old gear on Top Posts & Pages If you’re in the same frame of mind, welcome. I love taking pictures, I love old cameras, and that’s all it is about. And they will still be shooting film 10 years from now. People paint, ride horses, wear mechanical watches and play vinyl records for a multitude of reasons, some of them unsuspected 150 or 20 years ago. In the nineteen eighties digital watches did not kill mechanical watches, and vinyl records are making a comeback 20 years after CDs were launched. In the nineteenth century, photography did not kill watercolor painting and cars did not drive horses to extinction. But there is such an ample supply of nice second hand cameras that finding one you like is not a problem.įilm cameras are now extraordinarily cheap, and as long as you’re in no hurry to see your images and don’t take too many pictures, using SLRs or rangefinder cameras from yesteryear is a rewarding experience. It’s a different experience, and using different tools make you see the world differently. But I also love shooting with film cameras. Like anybody else, I use digital cameras. About old film cameras, and the pictures you can still make with them.
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