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- From: ben_wen@athena.mit.edu (Benson Wen)
- Subject: Re: Canon EOS A2 or A2E?
- In-Reply-To: acs@csri.toronto.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 07:17:17 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:46:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.021717.28954@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
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- In <74311@cup.portal.com> HERMES1@cup.portal.com (Douglas Brian Opfer) writes:
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- >I'm considering purchasing one of the Canon A2's and am interested in any
- >opinions regarding the eye controlled focus on the A2E. Is this really a
- >worthwhile feature or something that would rarely be used? Also, is this
- >the ONLY difference between these two cameras? Any comments or opinions
- >would be helpful, especially from those who have already made this choice.
-
- The only difference between the A2 and A2E is the eye-controlled
- focusing.
-
- Actually, the A2 has a built-in diopter correction eyepiece, while
- the A2E doesn't. I guess there's not enough room for both in the
- prism housing.
-
- Also, due to patent wranglings, according to this month's Pop Photo,
- the EOS-5 HAS the manual exposure offset in the viewfinder ON THE BAR
- GRAPH! The A2(E) has only plus/minus.
-
- I tried out the A2E at a couple of camera stores, and it seems to work
- pretty well. I really like the vertical grip. I wish Canon would've
- allowed the A2(E) to take AA's, oh well, I smell an EOS-2 around the
- corner.... The only time I would use the eye controlled focus is for
- shooting sports, maybe.
-
- -Ben
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- || Benson Wen
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