Vintage Canon camera collection

Last modified: Jan 2, 2016. Find me on YouTube as the CanonFilmGuy or on Twitter @canonfd.

I like to think that I specialize in late 1960s to early 1980s film rangefinder and SLRs from Canon. I also do rudimentary repair and cleaning, and I collect catalogs, manuals and magazines associated with these cameras as well. This is a list of vintage Canon cameras I own. All are functional.

• Canon Canonet (1961)
• Canon Demi C (1965)
• Canodate E (1970)
• Canon Canonet QL17 GIII (1972)
• Canon EF (1973)
• Canon 110 ED (1975)
• Canon A35 Datelux (1977)
• Canon A-1 (1978)
• Canon ODF-1 (1978)
• Canon AV-1 (1979)
• Canon AE-1 Program (1981)
• Canon AF35ML Super Sure Shot / Autoboy Super (1981)
• Canon New F-1 (1981)
• Canon AL-1 (1982)

I also own a couple of non-Canon cameras:

• Olympus Pen EE (EL)
• Rolleiflex SL35M
• Mamiya RB67
• Zeiss Ikon Nettar

Articles

• 1980 Canon Reflex magazine
• What's in a viewfinder?
• Canon A-1 vs. New F-1
• Tips to buying cameras at flea markets

Manuals

• EF (2.8MB)
• F-1 (7.7MB)
• AE-1 (2.9MB)
• AE-1 Program (8.5MB)
• A-1 (3.7MB)
• AV-1 (6.4MB)
• New F-1 (28.2MB)

Other collectors

I'm not the only one who collects Canon cameras, though there are only a few who write extensively online.

• Jean-Luc Cavey is by far the most prolific.
• Karen Nakamura has a few Canons, among others.
• Sylvain Halgand maintains probably the largest French (and partly English-translated) repository of information on vintage cameras and lenses. There's a tidy Canon section.
• Baytan has a nice collection of Canon FD manuals.
• Stephen Gandy is extremely knowledgeable with classic cameras, though he chiefly owns, repairs and writes about Nikons.
• Two German collectors include Detlef Prüfert and Christoph Michel whose collection of F-1 and New F-1s are particularly impressive.
• Mr. Martin collects all sorts of cameras, including Canons.