It made reappearances in the form of the EOS RT (which I have) and an
EOS 1 version. They are an interesting variation - the RT is quieter
than the 630 on which it is based but has the same shutter with a
sticky foam problem when a bumper breaks down. If buying, check/ask if
there are any shiny black spots on the shutter blades as it's a
$100-150 fix and is more likely to be a problem than a dirty 'mirror.'
The finder is dim with more like a two-thirds stop loss but not bad
compared to a digital :-) The best part is that there is no finder
blackout when shooting which is nice for portraits and for following
action. The speed is scary as you can burn a film in about 5 seconds.
Quite useable with up to an f2.8 lens - remember that lotsa folk get by
fine with lenses in the 3.5 to 4.5 range.
OM content - I have mounted a Zuiko on it.
AndrewF
On 12/12/2004, at 6:18 PM, Jim Brokaw wrote:
>>
>
> If I remember the Canon Pellix, the mirror (called a pellicle I
> think...) is
> actually not even glass, but made of some superthin semitransparent
> material
> (nitrocellulose?) and there just plain flat out are no replacement
> parts
> available anymore, anywhere at any price. For a camera with no mirror
> slap,
> its still almost as loud as an SLR, not quiet like the rangefinder
> Canons
> that were at that time still available I think. I believe the light
> loss due
> to the pellicle mirror was about 1/3 stop, but the finder was kind of
> dim as
> a tradeoff. The most common 'solution' for that was the f1.2 lens.
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
>
>
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