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Rik_Van_Looy
Well, fuck. I talked about an issue I was having with my Canon T70 a long time ago where the mirror would not clear the frame when shooting at 1/500th and 1/1000th. I put a few rolls through making sure I didn't go higher than 1/250th but it still seems to be happening even at lower shutter speeds if this last roll is anything to go by, example below.
I'm pretty gutted as most of the roll was shot on a hike that we brought a friend out on after his father had passed.
It's time to put the T70 into retirement. In terms of replacement I'd like something fully manual, Canon A1 looks good but seems to be victim to hipster tax? Reliability needs to trump all, then affordability. As mentioned above Canon autofocus SLRs seem to be abundant and dirt cheap, is there a caveat to them that I'm missing? I have never shot with an AF film SLR.