Down the Road

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Since 2007

Tag: Canon T70

  • Five semi-automatic 35mm SLRs for under $50

    A look at five semi-automatic film SLRs you can buy for a song.

  • Updated review: Canon T70

    Updated review of the Canon T70.

  • Arched door Canon T70, Canon FD 50mm f/1.8, Fujifilm Fujicolor 200 2014

  • Canon T70

    From its invention the SLR moved inexorably from all mechanical and manual toward full electronic automation. My favorite SLRs offer open-aperture metering and aperture-priority autoexposure, but manual everything else. That places them in the mid-to-late 1970s. Older SLRs feel like too much work with stop-down metering or no metering at all. And later SLRs are too easy: just frame…