Canon film cameras

ANON’S FIRST prototype camera, a 1934 Leicainspired rangefinder, heralded the start of a long and illustrious line up of film cameras that covered everything from cheap plastic point and shoots, half-frame ‘Demi’ cameras, IXUS APS compacts all the way up to high-spec precursors of our modern digital SLRs. We take a look at some of our Canon favourites.

Canon SLR mounts

several mounts for its SLRs starting with the breech-lock ‘R’ (1959-64) and ‘FL’ (1964-71) mounts before their popular FD mount (1971–89), which featured an extensive line up of manual lenses and supported