Difference between revisions of "Canon Pellix"

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* Photoethnography's [http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?Lens-FD.html~mainFrame Pellix page]
 
* Photoethnography's [http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?Lens-FD.html~mainFrame Pellix page]
* [http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/pellix/index.htm Canon Pellix Cameras]
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* [http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/pellix/index.htm Canon Pellix Cameras] at Photography in Malaysia
  
  
 
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Description

The Canon Pellix, first marketed in 1965, is a unique manual focus SLR. It was Canon's first 35mm focal-plane shutter SLR camera with TTL metering. But what made it special was its pellicle mirror. A piece of glass covered with a very thin, semi-transparent film only .02 mm thick was used as a fixed mirror, rather than the moving SLR reflex mirror. The mirror allows 2/3 of the light to go through to the film, and 1/3 to be transmitted upwards to the viewfinder. Since there was no mirror blackout, the user could see the image at the moment of exposure.


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