Ltdave
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my first time shooting with a 'real' camera was in 6th grade on the school yearbook. 1976.
this was the camera my advisor had (but with only the 50mm and 35mm lenses). my mom used to worry herself sick, when the advisor would let me bring this home with me after some event where i couldnt get it locked back up in the school offices. there was also a 90mm lens but i dont own it. i bought this kit off ebay because it was what i started out with.
the EX-Auto was released in 1972.
from Wiki::
Its most characteristic feature is a rear lens-group fixed on the camera, to which any of a small selection of front groups can be attached (by a simple screw fitting).
McKeown mistakenly lists the EX Auto as a name variant of the Canon EXEE, and dates it to 1969, the date the EXEE was introduced. It is actually a modest improvement on the EXEE. Like the EXEE, the Auto offers through-the-lens metering and shutter-priority AE, but unlike the previous model, the camera detects the maximum aperture of the different lens front-groups (the EXEE requires manual setting of the maximum aperture to f/1.8 or f/3.5 at the film-speed dial).
The shutter speed is set on a dial next to the release button. The aperture is set not on the lens, but on a dial around the rewind crank, between f/1.8 and f/16; there are also 'Auto' and 'Off' positions. The aperture set is displayed in the viewfinder on a scale with a needle.
this was the camera my advisor had (but with only the 50mm and 35mm lenses). my mom used to worry herself sick, when the advisor would let me bring this home with me after some event where i couldnt get it locked back up in the school offices. there was also a 90mm lens but i dont own it. i bought this kit off ebay because it was what i started out with.
the EX-Auto was released in 1972.
from Wiki::
Its most characteristic feature is a rear lens-group fixed on the camera, to which any of a small selection of front groups can be attached (by a simple screw fitting).
McKeown mistakenly lists the EX Auto as a name variant of the Canon EXEE, and dates it to 1969, the date the EXEE was introduced. It is actually a modest improvement on the EXEE. Like the EXEE, the Auto offers through-the-lens metering and shutter-priority AE, but unlike the previous model, the camera detects the maximum aperture of the different lens front-groups (the EXEE requires manual setting of the maximum aperture to f/1.8 or f/3.5 at the film-speed dial).
The shutter speed is set on a dial next to the release button. The aperture is set not on the lens, but on a dial around the rewind crank, between f/1.8 and f/16; there are also 'Auto' and 'Off' positions. The aperture set is displayed in the viewfinder on a scale with a needle.
