The Story Behind the Canon SLR Camera

Now for those of you who don’t know what SLR stands for, well the abbreviation stands for single reflex lens. The 35mm canon camera graduated to the rangefinder ones and then to the canon SLR cameras. The first SLR camera which was launched by this world renowned company was the Canon Flex camera. Now there was advancement when it came to the lenses of these cameras too. They advanced from the “R” series to your “Fl” series.

Now knowing about the story of the Canon SLR camera is quite interesting. Now the entire concept of the 35 mm canon camera started with a heated discussion about whether to keep manufacturing high end cameras or to also shift to the lower market where ordinary consumers could also purchase cameras like this.

Now the debate ended with the company manufacturing its camera range which was quite affordable. Hence this led to the birth of the 35 mm camera which was called the Canonet.

Now the Canonet was followed by the 8mm cine camera which was called the Canon Cine 8T in 1956. This camera had the zoom lens and the magnification value of 4 but then the disadvantage was its huge size. Now the company kept trying to improve the standards of this 8mm camera for quite sometime. Now this camera was succeeded by the 35mm Canon SLR cameras.

The first SLR camera was brought out in 1959. The first series for this camera which was developed by the company was the R series. Every SLR camera which used the lens which was of the r series was known as the R series Canon SLR camera. The Canoflex was the first Canon SLR camera introduced which was followed by the R2000 series and the Canoflex RM.

Now this camera consisted of a exposure meter which was in built and also had the film “advanced” system which had a lever which was recessed rather than the usual triggers. This was done to improve upon the cameras operability. Now the R series had very good characteristics when it came to the lenses but then there were certain errors in the costs and the future developments (technical) and thus this series need a makeover.

Thus came in the FL series. Now this series had fluorite inside the super telephoto lenses which helped in reducing the amount of chromatic aberrations (chromatic). But then the crystals weren’t large enough for being applied practically. So artificial crystals were used instead of the real ones. SP lenses like FL300mm and the FL500mm lenses. Over time the company keeps changing the quality of the lenses and getting even more technologically advanced models for the Canon SLR cameras.

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