Canon Vintage F1 Photo Camera

[Music] um [Music] in the early 70s nikon dominated the professional slr market with the nikon f and f2 so canon invested heavily in research and development to make a fully mechanical professional camera among the major features was an unusually fast shutter speed of 1 2 000 of a second and a match needle system to set the exposure the camera was supporting over 200 accessories it was built like a tank but sadly it also weighs as much as a tank the f1 was truly modular since the viewfinder could be removed and changed you can even change the focusing screens and the entire camera back could be removed one of the selling points of the f1 is the ability to use different generations of canon lenses today the f1 has a cult following among many who regard it as the best manual focus film camera ever made the camera had such an impact on popular culture that in 2001 a swedish artist created