- Location
- Central Florida
- Name
- Tim Williams
There's a book by Jeremy Clarkson - "You've Got Soul" - it'a about machines that have just that. There are chapters devoted to the Riva speedboat, the Spitfire, the Zeppelin, etc. I have had a couple of Canon cameras, and a few more lenses (in LTM) but I have never bonded with them, and for me at least it is that reason - they are highly efficient machines but just have no discernable soul.
Just in case people with Canons think I am picking on them I have felt the same about other cameras; Voigtlander, for instance, and Bronica. It's a personal, subjective, intangible thing I know, but I do think it has a bearing, particularly somewhere like here where I think that the average EQ of the members is higher than you would find on a more gear-orientated site.
I am kind of in this group but for one thing. Canon FD's have soul. The Canon F1's are efficient machines with shutters of silk. FTb's are great cameras as are A1's and even now T90's, but I know of not 1 Canon digital that has soul. In fact, no digital camera has soul.
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