Analog album images with the Canon Autoboy 3, a 35mm autofocus film camera with advanced features and an ergonomic design.
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The Canon Autoboy 3 (Canon Sure Shot Supreme in the Americas, Canon Top Shot in Europe, Asia, and Oceania), launched in 1986, is a highly-regarded 35mm autofocus film camera packed with advanced features, including a tilting foot for upward angled shots and a slanted hand grip as part of its ergonomic design. The camera, which updates the Canon Autoboy 2, is acknowledged for its ease of use and good image quality, and is the winner of the Good Design Award from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan) and the European Camera of the Year in 1986.
The camera has a 4-element, 4-group Canon 38mm 1:2.8 lens with spectral coating fitted, a programmed electromagnetic shutter with a speed range from 1/8 second at f/2.8 to 1/500 second at f/16, a built-in flash, self-timer, and takes DX-coded film rolls with ASA ratings from 50 to 1600. Film loading, film advance, rewind, exposure, focus, and autoflash are all automatic. Date imprints are available on the QD version.
The Autoboy 3 requires a 2CR5 Lithium battery pack to power its operation, which is good enough for a claimed life (as read from the instruction manual) of up to 5 years or 50 rolls of 24 exposure film with 30% flash use. The camera weighs 315 grams with batteries.
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Part of the excellent ergonomics of the camera centers on the slanted handgrip that helps maintain the camera flush as it is held to the eye, and the tilting feet on the bottom of the camera, that allows the camera to be placed on a flat surface while shooting upwards at an angle, or placed on a tilting surface for a straight on horizontal shot. The camera is also fully encapsulated within its own design.
Canon Autoboy 3
The Canon Autoboy 3, however, does have a couple of annoyances. First is the screwed-down battery compartment cover, which requires the use of a mini-screwdriver to open when the battery pack is due for replacement, and the other is the tiny rubber flash disable button located on the bottom of the camera that must be held down to disable the autoflash, a feat that is not that easy to execute.
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