Canon Sure Shot 35mm point and shoot film camera with 38 mm f/2.8 Lens

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The camera’s bonus features, the soft focus filter and multiple exposure mode, work as they should, though in both cases results will vary from user to user. It is essentially like a restyled version of the 1997 Sure Shot AF-7/Sure Shot Owl and carried on the characteristic large viewfinder (hence sold under the Owl name in the US). Since I started shooting film, a big part of my photos have been made with cheap, plastic point ‘n shoot compacts which exert a special attraction on me, equal to that exerted by the full-metal vintage SLRs and rangefinders I also like to use. No tiny soft-touch switches, no faded LCD displays, no need for repeated presses of a multifunctional button to reach a hidden flash mode. The camera handled the Agfa APX-100 much better and I was really impressed by the little triplet: Sharp, contrasty pics with some corner smearing creeping up under suboptimal conditions (i.

This camera would not be good for street photography, as everyone within a 20 foot radius would be aware of it. And unlike so many of the cameras of the point and shoot class, the XL won’t fit into a pocket or seemingly disappear when not in use. All cameras with electronic winding motors die eventually, and when this kind goes, there isn’t any hope for repair. My goal was rediscover the fun and satisfaction found in not worrying too much about the final “quality” of the images.

My camera is clearly marked “Sure Shot AF-7”, but if you google that, you’ll most likely come up with a similar but definitely different-looking camera. This complexity, especially true of the early zooms from the era of the Sure Shot Tele, results in a degradation in image quality. To reduce the risk of fire, never leave vintage electrical or electronic products plugged in unattended. It came in a case, which has begun disintegrating during the six months that I’ve owned it – they fit perfectly into the larger late-era Olympus Trip cases, if you are wondering. plus the Minolta also had a more interesting character to the photographs, in my experience with them both.

The camera might have fallen by the wayside along with the countless other automatic 35mm cameras of the 90s, had it not been for its quirky features. The Ace can be a cheap introduction to shooting 35mm, or it may just be a compliment to your growing arsenal of film equipment. The Canon Sure Shot Tele is big and old and clunky, at least in outward appearance, but it’s a serious sleeper.Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Users who own Sure Shot Tele models equipped with the Date Back will also find their date controls on the back of the camera, positioned in the usual spot, center of the film door.

Slightly larger and more legible than most point and shoot cameras, it zooms throughout the range of focal lengths in unison with the lens. I think being able to experiment with a built-in soft focus filter, like on your Sure Shot Tele, would be lots of fun. I was actually after the Zorki 4K but also included the Canon, a Samsung Digital, a 110 camera and a pair of binoculars. From the time of this camera’s introduction, the age of zoom compact cameras started to replace the single-focal-length compact camera market. There exists a persistent myth in the world of point-and-shoot 35mm film cameras that the only point-and-shoots worth owning are those which have been spotted in the hands of Zendaya and Oscar Isaac and Kendall Jenner, et al.

It has a built-in soft-focus filter and a multiple exposure mode, which Canon lauded in their print ads of the time.