Last week I wrote about a 35mm TLR from 1955 – the Samocaflex, this week I’ve been using a Canon EOS 1000F from 1993. I would say that this was the first of the budget, mass market, and therefore lighter plastic models that really popularized the EOS system. Yes there were earlier, heftier and arguably better models like the EOS 620/650, but they were £700/£800 when they were released and as such a high end purchase, back in 1987, the “birth of EOS”! The 1000 series were cameras that ordinary families might buy to record their holidays and so on. In a similar vein Canon’s first DSLR the D30 (note D30 not 30D!), was released just 7 years later, again it took a few years to become better/ drop in price before we got to things like the 20D and so on. Interestingly however squeezed into that gap between popular film and popular DSLR, Canon produced a large range of EOS film cameras – a couple of which I would call “modern classics”.
I would suggest that one of the 1000 series is such a classic – an OM10 of it’s day! I’ve written recently about the Canon 1000, and this “F” version as far as I can see is exactly the same just with a flash added, built into the top of the camera. For that reason I won’t list a run through of it’s spec – it would be “cut and paste”! Instead here are some images made with the “F”!
One of my “go-to” cameras is the EOS 30 (film) – I’ll re-do a post about that model before too long, but until then I say “cheers!” to the 1000’s.
S.H.O.U.T. 
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