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Why we want the cars we couldn’t have | Column | Articles

Why we want the cars we couldn’t have | Column | Articles

What did I say to my wife yesterday? We need less stuff in our house.

What did I do today? Bought another camera. 

Do I need another camera? No, we have a house full of them, from those hundred-year-old folding models with the cloth bellows to today’s high-tech digital workhorses.

So why did I buy another camera? To experience a legendary piece of equipment that at one point sat totally beyond my means. 

I have always shot Canon cameras because that’s what my dad has always used. Like father, like son, right? 

In 1971, Canon launched its first real professional model. It was simply called the F-1, and this all-manual brick of a camera was designed to go anywhere under any conditions, literally from the Olympics to the battlefield.

Canon rated the camera’s shutter for 100,000…

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