Canon EOS 650

Canon EOS 650, originally uploaded by DSNelson.

A few weeks ago I had a bit of a splurge on eBay which is not commonly seen of me usually but when you’re on a roll you just have to go with it. I starting by purchasing a replacement heater blower motor for my car (the thing that pushes air through the internal heating system) as my old one packed in a couple of weeks earlier. I also purchased an IT book called “Learning Python” that I wanted for my recent study on the subject and then I saw that the person selling this book was also selling a small library of IT books at 99p each; in all I found 6 that were relevant to my interests most of which were won for 99p or not for than a pound more. My final purchase was the Canon EOS 650 (pictured) from the Real Camera shop in Manchester who I’ve had dealings with before.

This is the very first Canon EOS SLR model from 1987 and for the £5 I paid for it, this beauty was an absolute bargain! It’s also in very good condition, like it’s never been used. This particular copy is the second one I’ve had as the first one had a fault with the film advance motor but the very nice people at Real Camera happily replaced it for me.

I have since loaded the camera with some out-of-date Fuji Superia film that I bought for my even older manual SLR camera a few years back. That camera fell out of use after I bought my DSLR but I’m hoping the film is still capable of producing some reasonable pictures.

This model has much of the functionality found in my much newer DSLR, it’s interesting to see how far the technology has come in the last 22 years and I’m looking forward to the first results which won’t be far off. I have only one lens which fits this camera as my others are EF-S mount which work only on digital cameras, this lens is my Sigma 70mm Macro which is fortunately one of my favourites as it’s very very sharp and on a 35mm provides a good viewing angle for portraits so expect to see a good few of these on my Flickr stream in the near future!