The Canon FX is a 35 mm SLR manufactured by

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and introduced in April 1964. It introduced the

Canon FL Canon FL refers to a lens mount standard for 35mm single-lens reflex cameras from Canon. It was introduced in April 1964 with the Canon FX camera, replacing the previous Canon R lens mount. The FL mount was in turn replaced in 1971 by the Ca ...

lens mount, the successor to the

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. The camera has a built-in

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using a

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mounted on the photographer's left-hand side; unlike later cameras, it does not meter through the taking lens. A lever switched between low sensitivity for bright subjects ( EV 9–18) and high sensitivity for dark subjects (EV 1-10) (at ISO 100). Film speeds supported are ISO 10 through 800. The shutter is a horizontally-traveling

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supporting speeds between 1/1000 and 1 second in full stop increments, selected by a dial on the top plate on the photographer's right. The

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speed for flash is 1/55 sec.; flash support was through a PC socket on the front of the body. The viewfinder uses a glass pentaprism and gives coverage of 90% of the frame vertically and 93% horizontally, with a 0.9× magnification (with a 50 mm standard lens). The FX was available with either silver or black metal parts. Obviously there could be a few hidden ones in cupboards and dens, however there were only two known all-black models until November 2014;There are now at least three, two are owned by a private collector in Pennsylvania, USA and another one by a private collector in Koromilia, Kilkis, Greece.

References

Canon's new Museum site is https://global.canon/en/c-museum/ and the link to the Canon FX is https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/film49.html {{Table of Canon SLR Canon FL cameras