Canon FP
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| Canon FP | |
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| Type | 35mm SLR |
| Lens mount | Canon FL lens mount |
| Focus | Manual |
| Exposure | Manual, no onboard meter |
| Flash | Hot shoe only |
| Dimensions | 141 × 90 × 83 mm, 940 g (with 50mm f/1.8) |
The Canon FP is a 35 mm SLR manufactured by Canon Inc. of Japan and introduced in October 1964. It introduced the Canon FL lens mount, the successor to the Canon R.[1] It is effectively a Canon FX without the built-in lightmeter, and was intended for photographers who did not want that feature and used an external lightmeter. Canon sold an external lightmeter with the same specifications as the FX's built-in.
The shutter is a horizontally-traveling focal plane shutter 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 X-sync speed for flash is 1/55 sec.; flash support was either through a hot shoe atop the pentaprism, or 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 FP was available with either silver or black metal parts.
[edit] References
| Canon SLR cameras and lens mounts | ||
| Lens Mount | Series | Model |
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| R | Flex (1959), R2000 (1960), RP (1961), RM (1962) | |
| FL | FX (1964), FP (1964), Pellix (1965), FT QL (1966), Pellix QL (1966), TL (1968) | |
| FD | F | Amateur: FTb (1971), FTbn (1973), EF (1973), TLb (1974), TX (1975) |
| Professional: F-1(1971), F-1n (1976), New F-1 (1981) | ||
| A | AE-1 (1976), AT-1 (1976), A-1 (1978), AV-1 (1979), AE-1 Program (1981), AL-1 (1982) | |
| T | T50 (1983), T70 (1984), T80 (1985), T90 (1986), T60 (1990) | |
| EF / EF-S | ||
| 1 | EOS-1 (1989), EOS-1N (1994), EOS-1N RS (1995), EOS-1v (2001) | |
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EOS 650 (1987), EOS 620 (1987), EOS 750QD (1988), EOS 850QD (1988), EOS 630QD (1989), EOS RT (1989), EOS 700QD (1989), EOS 10sQD (1990), EOS 1000F (1990), EOS 100 (1991), EOS EF-M (1991), EOS 5/5QD/A2/A2e (1992), EOS 1000FN (1992), EOS 500 (1993), EOS 888 (1993), EOS 50 (1995), EOS 500N (1996), EOS-3 (1998), EOS 88 (1999), EOS 300 (1999), EOS 30 (2000), EOS 3000N (2002), EOS 300V (2002), EOS 3000V (2003), EOS 30V (2004), EOS 300X (2004) |
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| IX | EOS IX, EOS IX Lite | |
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