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The Canon Sure Shot Supreme is a high quality, compact point and shoot camera that was popular when introduced and is still popular today. There were a couple of occasions when the camera missed the focus on close subjects as the subject was too close, but I also ignored the warning lights in the viewfinder that told me the subject was too close and not in focus. The focus on the Canon Sure Shot Supreme is located in the middle of the frame, which means when focusing the camera, part of your subject has to be overlapping the square in the middle of your viewfinder.
No tiny soft-touch switches, no faded LCD displays, no need for repeated presses of a multifunctional button to reach a hidden flash mode. Film photography can be an expensive hobby but there is one very simple thing you can do to offset the overall cost when starting out. As I shoot street photography, I like a camera that doesn’t get in my way as I try to capture scenes that are here now but won’t be a second later. The shutter button is big, rubbery and perfectly placed with two clearly distinct levels of pressure required to engage the AF system and release the shutter respectively. Since then I've taken photos for a hobby, sold cameras for a living, and for a little more than decade I've been a professional photographer and, of course, weekly contributor to 35mmc.plus the Minolta also had a more interesting character to the photographs, in my experience with them both. I really don't understand why more people don't struggle with the small size and slippery ergonomics. The Espio 120Mi was kept not only for the sense of quality it exuded but because it was so small and well-featured.
The “other” Sure Shot AF-7 you may come across while browsing the net, does not have the mode dial at all, flash control and self timer being handled by two dreaded soft-touch buttons on the front of the camera. The Canon Sure Shot is notorious in the film community, with multiple different models being made from 1979 to 1988. If you like what you're reading you can also help this passion project by heading over to the EMULSIVE Patreon page and contributing as little as a dollar a month.She had one just like this but it was worn out from constant use, with the back taped to keep the roll door shut.
I had a similar camera for a hot sec, the Minolta Freedom Tele, which Leica repackaged as the AF-C1. Contemporary film photographers argue that the process of shooting film invites a person to slow down; while a snapshot camera challenges this idea. The camera can sense when the remote isn’t there, and will activate a small red light on the front of the camera. The images are there for you to judge lens performance, but I would like to add a few comments of my own: Firstly, I think the manual’s warning against the use of slide film should be respected.
Most point-and-shoot film cameras from the era of the Sure Shot Tele possess weak, pathetic battery doors which break in a stiff wind. Bringing it up to eye level, the little Sure Shot scores big as the viewfinder is simply AMAZING: Big and bright with parallax correction marks, it provides 80% coverage with x0,68 magnification and reminds me a lot of the fantastic VF of the Agfa Optima Electronic series. During my latest fling with the Sure Shot Zoom XL, I thought it would be fun to put it to the test, to prove or disprove Canon’s claims of parity between the lens of this old, chunky point and shoot and those of its SLR-mounted contemporaries. That’s how the Sure Shot AF-7 viewfinder works, the same way as on countless other basic film cameras. Exposure latitude of slide film is really minimal so the exposure range limitations of the camera became readily apparent, something that probably wouldn’t have been the case if negative film had been used.
Film advance is much less noisy than earlier film compacts, as by the end of the ‘90s camera motors had gradually become quiet enough to be easily drowned by traffic noise and the AF-7/8 is a good example of that improvement. No need to reset the flash after each shot is fired, no automatic shut-down of the camera after a couple of minutes if you decide to keep it turned on in your pocket to avoid the flash resetting to auto. Autofocus System: SPC linear-array sensor for SST passive AF using the AF-assist near-infrared beam. The only manual feature of this camera is the ISO, which is found underneath the lens with the window on top.You set the flash to off, turn the camera off, and when you turn it back on, the flash is still off! I also used the Sure Shot AF-7 for the shitty camera challenge; a film photography event that was run on Twitter. The camera does fit easily in a pants pocket, though it is very much the shape of a brick and can be a tad awkward.
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