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Canon EXee

            The Canon EXee (introduced in 1969) was a sui generis budget SLR, and optically and mechanically mediocre.  Cheapest is seldom best buy!  

It came, optionally, as a complete kit of camera and four lenses. These were not true interchangeable lenses, but screw-in front element groups, with effective focal lengths of 35mm, 50mm, 95mm and 125mm.  The rear element group was fixed and remained in the camera.  

The design concept held good for the 50mm and 35mm lens modules (lower left and  right), which were very compact, but less so for the telephoto ones.  The almost 1lb weight of the massive 125mm (shown fitted) put considerable stress on the small-diameter focussing helix in the camera body, which was prone to wear quickly and develop backlash.  For the benefit of the TTL meter, the maximum aperture of the lens fitted (f1.8 for the 50mm, a slow f3.5 for the others) has to be set manually on the film speed setting.  Apertures are set either automatically or manually by a dial on the top plate; the only aperture indication is in the viewfinder.

Among its faults (the instruction book gave no hint of this) was that the effective aperture of the in-body diaphragm differed with the lens fitted, and unless compensated for (changing the film speed setting), shots taken with the 125mm would be 2/3 stop overexposed. (This was corrected in the later EX Auto model). 

In its favour, it was compact and the unusual clear-glass focussing screen (focussing was done with the centre microprism spot only) and very bright viewfinder image, TTL metering and AE exposure made it quick and easy to use.

Taken on: May 27, 2009

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