I have a Canon Prima AS-1 that I bought around 1996 and I always loved the photos of it. I didn’t know it was possible to scan the photos, as I always used films. I have always taken good care of it, and kept the camera without a battery, which avoids damaging it. Seeing your story for sure I will buy battery and film and reactivate. I’m from Brazil and congratulations on the article. I'm a 20 year old college student who's fascinated by subminiature photography and soviet cameras. Ironically I mostly shoot either half frame or medium format. The whole line of Canon Sure Shot cameras – which ran from 1979 to 2005 and was known as Autoboy in Japan – was designed to give the company a meaty slice of the consumer camera market. Potentially the weirdest model of the bunch, the Canon Sure Shot Owl was manufactured for export only, and never released in Japan. They weren’t missing out on much.

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. If that sounds like the kind of film camera you want, then yes. You wouldn’t go far wrong with a Canon Sure Shot AF-7, or Owl, or Prima, or whatever else it may come labelled as.

Four years after the original Canon AF35M, a new, updated version was released. The (New) Sure Shot looks incredibly similar to the original, and the majority of the features are unchanged. Canon Sure Shot (Prima Super 150u Date) 150u Date 35mm Film Compact Camera with case - Very good condition and tested Viewfinder – 0.42x magnification Albada-type finder with frame-lines, parallax correction frame-lines, and AF indicator Beautiful Olympus XA-2 Compact Point and Shoot 35mm Film Camera 35mm f3.5 lens + A11 Flash + Display Case Paperwork EXCELLENT Film Tested

Albada reversed Galilean viewfinder. 0.42x magnification and 84% coverage. 33mm eye relief. Within the image area are the AF frame, close-up frame, panorama frame, green OK-to-Shoot LED (lights when focus is achieved; blinks for close-up warning, camera-shake warning, and red-eye reduction lamp ON; and turns off during flash recycling). First released in 1979, the Canon Sure Shot was a compact, 35mm film camera that featured a groundbreaking new technology – autofocus. It was a big hit. Frame lines aside, I loved using this little compact. On the street, I did not have to worry about anything except composition. The camera did all the work. Not really something I could use for candid photography, the motor is quite loud, but a great camera to take on holiday or run about town. Even with a rundown of a camera’s specs, you may still want to read the manual. In the likely case that your camera doesn’t come with a copy, you can find most camera manuals for free online. Okay, enough of that. There’s plenty of cameras I’d rather have. Hell, there’s plenty of other cameras I do have that are far superior, but there’s none I care so little about. That’s unique. No other camera of mine holds that distinction. There’s not a camera I’d rather be carrying if I drank a bottle of Jameson and fell into a swimming pool (purely hypothetical). I’d be delighted I had my Canon Sure Shot Max and not one of those high end compacts. Kodak 400 TX Kodak 400TXFor active autofocusing, the camera uses a triangulation system with a near-infrared beam. An electronically-controlled programmed shutter is used for fully automatic program EE. The metering range is EV 6 (f/2.8 at 1/8 sec.) to EV 17 (f/1.6 at 1/500 sec.).