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Lot Essay
Condition: 4B
Cosmetic: Normal use and wear.
Mechanical: Apparently working.
Based upon the F-1 body and Motor Drive, a High Speed Motor Drive Camera was developed exclusively for taking rapidly moving subjects, and provides a shooting speed of four to nine frames per second as well as single frame exposures
This camera was first developed for reporting the Olympic Games at Sapporo in 1972, and became the talk of the photographic world on account of its dramatic photographing capability. This camera operates in almost the same way as the F-1, and accepts FD and FL lenses. A later High Speed camera was designed during the LA Olympics, using the backbone of the Canon F-1.
Though specially made and conceived as a reformed type of the F-1, its body accuracy and durability were highly improved with the conditions of high speed operation in mind.
An outstanding feature that distinguishes this Canon camera from any other is a viewfinder which provides complete vision of the subject all of the time. When shooting at high speed to capture motion, it is inconvenient to have the viewfinder black out due of the action of the mirror at the very time of shooting. This problem was solved by incorporating a fixed pellicle mirror, which was previously used in the Canon Pellix. This is in addition to its high speed function with a capacity to shoot as many as nine frames per second.
According to Bob Shell total production for this model and the later version is thought to be no more than 200 units.
Cosmetic: Normal use and wear.
Mechanical: Apparently working.
Based upon the F-1 body and Motor Drive, a High Speed Motor Drive Camera was developed exclusively for taking rapidly moving subjects, and provides a shooting speed of four to nine frames per second as well as single frame exposures
This camera was first developed for reporting the Olympic Games at Sapporo in 1972, and became the talk of the photographic world on account of its dramatic photographing capability. This camera operates in almost the same way as the F-1, and accepts FD and FL lenses. A later High Speed camera was designed during the LA Olympics, using the backbone of the Canon F-1.
Though specially made and conceived as a reformed type of the F-1, its body accuracy and durability were highly improved with the conditions of high speed operation in mind.
An outstanding feature that distinguishes this Canon camera from any other is a viewfinder which provides complete vision of the subject all of the time. When shooting at high speed to capture motion, it is inconvenient to have the viewfinder black out due of the action of the mirror at the very time of shooting. This problem was solved by incorporating a fixed pellicle mirror, which was previously used in the Canon Pellix. This is in addition to its high speed function with a capacity to shoot as many as nine frames per second.
According to Bob Shell total production for this model and the later version is thought to be no more than 200 units.