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Canon New F-1
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Canon New F-1 and AE Power Winder FN. enlarge.
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Tough, extremely well made camera, possibly the best Canon's ever done.
Queit and no vibration!
Hard to turn the small, stiff shutter knob as you shoot.
Rewind fels nice!
smallish frame counter, even-nimbered. Red at 12, 20, 24 and 36.
DUF preview only works if lens set to aperture manually. Av meter stil reads in stop down, and with this you can compare exposure acuacy!
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Weight:
29.480 oz (835.8g) with batteries, strap lugs and bottom caps, but no lens, strap, film or body cap.
New F-1, strap lugs (no strap), AE Power Winder FN, and batteries: 44.475 oz. (1,260.9g).
New F-1, strap lugs (no strap), AE Power Winder FN, batteries and 50/1.4 FD: 51.775 oz. (1,467.8g).
AE Cap: 0.5g
winder cap: 1.5g
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No light on bottom shutter-speed finder readout, just hter right hand aperture readout
Meter
Beware: light comign in the eyepeicde wil alter the reading.
Power Winder FN: 2 FPS
Needed for shutter-proirity mode. Winder may be turned off for Tv mode, but the batteries have to be OK.
Geared offset tripod attachentn to camera with 25% geared adnavtege.
a complex kludge: Can't change cameras batter with winder attached.
New F-1 has three threaded covers on bottom. Have to remove two of the three (the winder coupler cover and the AE coupler cover (unmarked), drop them inside each other, and stick them in a copartment inside the windr batter box as not to lose them. God help yo if you have no manual. If you pulls off the rewind cover by accidentl you could fog your film.
Take out batteris of not using 3 weeks or more.
Rated for 20 36-exp rolls with carbon-Zinc.
Zinc, Alkaline of Ni-Cd
Have to reset the winder's frame counter with a button, and if not 36 exp, have to manually set it. TO set, have to PRESS IN the SET wheell and turn in direction of arrow. It stops the winder so it doesn't rip the sprockets at the end of the roll. Winder counts down whule camera counts up.
If you don't set the count-down counter, winder does have a tourque sensor and stop by itself. I suspect need for built-in stopper is for use in extreme cold.
Red numbers: 36, 24, 20, 12 and 6-0. Great to have it on back of camera where I can see it.
OK to wind by thumb.
8s - 1/2,000 OK in Tv mode, bolt, B and A not OK.
S mode: fires, and holds until you relese.
C Mode: Fires and advances. Take your finger off and it stops, leav your finger down and it fires again.
Vertical release always works, even if winder OFF! You wil have to wind film by thumb, or just turn the switvh lock to L to prevent it from shooting.
Feels great, but vertical grip is painful and square.
Stops after winders counter hits 0. Red light on back lights to tell you you're empty.
If you want a free frame, turn off winder and use your thumb.
To rewind:
Reset winder's counter so the winder gets back to normal operation. (Light stays on anyway)
Rotate R button (between shutter dial and camera' shutter release), then press down.
Rewind.
Advance the thumb lever the rest of the way to clear the red light.
To get the last frame:
Turn off winder.
Advance with the thumb lever.
Shoot and repeat.
When you hit the end, press rewind button and rewind.
Turn on winder to clear the red light.
Bulb shuttrer position has to be pressed on-camera; fires at 1/1,000 from either winder button.
With no battery in camera, the New F-1 works fine between 1/90 and 1/2,000 and bolt. Only the camera release button works.
Multiple exposures:
Pres and rotarte R button on-camera.
Shoot away with the winder's releaes. Frame counters advance, but film doesn't, which is retarded!
TO clear, make yoru last shot with the camera's own shutter button.
Why? Rewind button doens't clear when using winders releases, but does clear when camera's shutter pushed halfway.
Remote Control
Turn off winder so you don't fire it when plugging in.
Use a 2.5mm plug.
Turn winder back on and have at it.
AOK to use cable release in New F-1.
Weights
Winder FN, no batteries: 11.545 oz. (327.3g)
Windr FN and bateries: 14.980 oz (424.7g)
Winder FN, bateries and two captive caps frm the F1:15.050 oz.(426.6g)
New F-1, Winder FN, and batteries: 45.120 oz. (1279.1g)
New F-1, Winder FN, batteries and 50/14: 52.415 oz. (1485.95g)
Battery cover cath and end cap seem like weak plastic
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