{"id":19488,"date":"2018-01-14T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=19488"},"modified":"2018-01-14T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:33:06","slug":"canon-photura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=19488","title":{"rendered":"Canon Photura"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Canon\u00a0Photura, also know as the Autoboy Jet, \"CanonJet\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

looks like its purpose is to answer the question ‘What would happen if you just put a handstrap on an SLR\u00a0lens and called it a camera?’\u00a0 Its design seems to have more in common with a camcorder<\/a> than a film camera but on the end of the lens is just the ordinary insides of a 35mm point and shoot.\u00a0 The lens is a\u00a035-105mm f\/2.8-6.6 (10 elements in 9 groups) which is quite a bit faster than other point and shoot zoom\u00a0cameras.\u00a0 The flash is built into the cap and provides a nice large defuser unfortunately I didn’t get to\u00a0test its capabilities.\u00a0 Another item that’s there but I didn’t test is the low angle viewfinder mostly because it seems to require putting your eye nearly to it which sort of defeats the purpose in my opinion. \"waste_level\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also at 645grams and given its size it doesn’t seem to offer much of an advantage over a small SLR with a kit lens but it sure does look different.\u00a0\u00a0Other\u00a0interesting cameras in the same,\u00a0build it around the lens,\u00a0vein\u00a0are the Minolta Freedom Zoom 105i<\/a>\u00a0and the much more conventional looking Olympus IS-10 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t