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1. From : Jakub (zhenling@o2.pl)
Url : http://
Date : 04:15 AM Sunday 15 June, 2003

I`m looking for electric scheme of new F1

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2. From : L. Harvey (needleNpin63@erore.com)
Url : http://
Date : 12:43 PM Thursday 12 June, 2003

This is a damn good website - I was refer by a co-NF1 user via mail. I think we should get in more people to participate in this forum further, the key is how to promote this board to reach out to the right users as Kenneth pointed out correctly in his earlier posting. The New F-1 is a great camera at its own time and it deserves a dedicated site such as this to ensure all FD-users in able to share information and support each other at a same spot such as this great forum. For this development effort, I salute the amount of work spent in creating such a wonderful resources. Great stuff. p.s. I will spread the words around.

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3. From : Kenneth W. BT, Dr (kenniew_bt@hotmail.com)
Url : http://
Date : 09:35 AM Monday 09 June, 2003

I like this camera. It may not be the best in the world right now, but photography is not solely about how fast it can focus nor how well the frame has been exposed. The F-1 camera is very dependable and almost is my only camera that I would bring along in a long trip to my regular fast east business trips. It is simple to use especially when attaching with an AE finder. I am glad that this message baord finally has an official host and I will keep checking the postings whenever I can. I have seen Mark's active involement at the various canon forum and I am convinced he is the right guy to handle the appointment. The next thing is just how to spread across to other F-1 users via promotion. This is an excellent website (the best thus far in terms of originality and richness in content relating to MF cameras) for Canon (and other classic series SLR of other makes). Keep up with the good works. With my warmest regards and appreciation from the highland of Mexico. Cheers !

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4. From : Lindy (adkinstone@adelphia.net)
Url : http://
Date : 03:21 PM Sunday 08 June, 2003

The in-the-box LA F-1N will be a display item, though all the F-1 do benefit from routine excersize so it will get occasional and careful use. When it arrives, it will reside with the earliest known OD F-1n, the earliest serial number known mechanical F-1 and a few other mint- or better F-1 F-1n and F-1N in my glass display. My primary film shooter now is a AE F-1N with 5 fps drive. I do sure like collecting the F-1. KEH has a similar olympic 84 issue right now in the box also at $1269. I thought $725 was a reasonable BIN price considering that current KEH list price. Not many LA F-1N owners kept their boxes and thats what really what I wanted too, so it limited my options on this issue.

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5. From : Mark Wahlster (awahlster@aol.com)
Url : http://
Date : 07:50 AM Sunday 08 June, 2003

Lindy, I have only seen the LA in auctions on ebay. Will you be using it or will it sit the shelf? I have a couple of Canons I consider to be part of a collection (FTb black EF, an early AE-1) but I really try not to get somehthing I won't be using. I think if I could get one of the RARER F-1's I would like one of the origional OD green F-1's just for the novelty. I am though working my way to getting a number of the first version FD lenses the ones with the Chrome nose I already have a 35mm f2.0 55mm f1.2 and a 100mm f2.8 and always looking for a nice one to add. Currently my favorite Canon in my "collection" is my Demi S half frame so cute and such a great little camera. Who else has both users and collectables??

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6. From : Lindy (adkinstone@adelphia.net)
Url : http://
Date : 09:32 PM Saturday 07 June, 2003

Hi Mark! Nice to see you are moderating the F-1N board. I am awaiting the arrival of a LA issue F-1N which included the original packaging also. I have owned 6 F-1N but never an Olympic issue. I hope its as nice as described(or better). The 4 key pieces are in yellow paint, not white, so its all correct. The last in the box F-1 I got was a disappointment. The box was real nice but the camera was a solid 8 and no better. So I wait...

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7. From : Mark Wahlster (awahlster@aol.com)
Url : http://
Date : 02:56 PM Tuesday 03 June, 2003

Well thanks, Since I am to be a moderator of this fine message board I would like to welcome anyone who has been lurking waiting for someone to ask just the right question to pull them in to the spotlight. If everyone just asked one or to questions we could pull a number of topics to discuss and see what we can all learn. The subject is a fine camera and one of my very favorites. And I have a whole bunch to chose from 13 FD mount bodies all told and I still have a couple more I would like to own. I have both the user (15-30 rolls of film in an average around home working each day month) I'm not a pro by any means and maybe more of a collector then I should be. I'm likely to pack up a 1/2 dozen cameras to go some where and then find a great opertunity along the way only to learn I only have the film in a couple of the cameras to make due with as I never thought to bring extra. I problem I am working on.

Does anyone on the board use their F-1N with long lenses? Mine is almost always mounted to either my 400mm f4.5 nFD w/2X-A or my 500mm f4.5L S.S.C.w/1.4X-A or 2X-A and sometimes ever a FD 15 or 25 tube in the mix to incress the mag even more for backyard birds with no real loss of light. The viewfinder display combined with the Super bright series of screens is ideal for work in the 400mm - 800mm range in my opinion. I'm hoping to add a second one with an AE finder soon so I can mount up both lenses.

OK PEOPLE TALK

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8. From : Ivan T. Morgan (ivanmargan99@yahoo.com)
Url : http://
Date : 04:13 PM Monday 02 June, 2003

After two years of wait and regular re-visiting, finally and officially now we have a host ... This is a very HIGH QUALITY website on camera information and the forum should have someone such as Mark be the Boss. I 'd love to help but technically I am a little weak but I think participating is the key and I have finally have the courage to put up my first ever posting on the web now in supporting Mark. Both the Canon A-series and T90 was simply superb in richness of content and has slowly turned into an influential reference site on their own, I hope this spirit can also be transfered to the New F-1 as well ! Cheers !!! p.s. leofoo's name is Leonard ?? now I know. Greetings from Maine.

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9. From : Mark Wahlster (awahlster@aol.com)
Url : http://
Date : 01:17 AM Monday 02 June, 2003

OK I'm wrong I was just in a local camera shop and when asking to look at a beautiful canon 300m f2.8 nFD they had for sale the clerk said "and we have the adapter to use that on your EOS body" I said you mean for macro work he said Oh no for regular work and handed me an adapter made or sold by HAMA that had a recessed optical element That when I asked for a EOS body to try it out worked as far as I could tell thru the viewfinder allowing infinity focus (the extended infinity range on this lens may have been a help here I didn't think to check that) It had a simple lever to stop down the lens and would as far as I could tell allow any Canon FD lens from about 24mm to 800 to be mounted to an EOS camera body and while it would be totally manual stop down metering (ala Canon FL mount) it would seam that we can now mount a Canon FD lens with limited funtion to a EOS film or Digital body !!!! I stand corrected and appologise for not knowing this before my origional post.

PS. Leonard has asked me to help to Moderate this message board and I will do what I can to answer any questions that are brought up to the best of my ability or direct you to resorces that can. And hope this leads to a incressed use of this message board. I will be checking at least four or five time a week to make sure no question is left unaddressed for long. Talk later.

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10. From : Mark Wahlster (awahlster@aol.com)
Url : http://
Date : 03:46 PM Friday 30 May, 2003

Richard I just posted an answer to the reverse of your question on the T90 page I will post here the part that applies to your question.

The only 2 adapters that Canon ever made between these to styles of mount are the 1.2X FD lens to EF body adapter(sold only thru the Canon Proshop and only long ago)this adapter will only work with lenses over 200mm and the 200mm f2.8 IF nFD and then only those without the square rear baffle same problem as the 1.4X-A extender.The optical element extends into the mount of the FD lens. This adapter has an optical element or elements that give a 1.2X magnification and corrects for the stand off needed to put a FD mount lens to a EF mount body. These sell for around $500.00 on ebay about two or three a year is what I have seen over the last four years of whating ebay almost every day.

The other adapter which is more common is only good for macro work as it has no optical elements and was designed to allow the FD range of bellows and macro equipment to be used on an EF mount body. There are a few FD mount lens to EF body third party adapters BUT as far as I know NONE of these has an optical element in their construction and could only be used at Macro distances.

Canon did not want you to be able to share your lenses with any one using a EF mount body.

Sorry old story sad ending

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