Canon Pellix

The Canon Pellix it was a small SLR with a fixed mirror, which also led to the name Pellix. She had a Canon FL lens mount and belonged to the Canon cameras, the F- series. It was the first Canon camera with TTL metering.

  • 2.1 Period and classification
  • 2.2 QL system
  • 2.3 meter 2.3.1 Canon Booster

Pellix

Period of time

The Canon Pellix appeared in April 1965 and was replaced by the slightly modified Pellix QL in the following year. The Pellix cost with the normal lens 50 mm f / 1,8 1200 DM

Housing

The Pellix based on the aluminum housing of the Canon FX. Bottom plate and caps were in silver or black, the black version has been bought rare.

Viewfinder

The peculiarity of the Pellix was a partially transparent mirror. For this came with a 0.02 mm very thin, vapor-deposited plastic film of Mylar used. She was very sensitive and could not be touched, but this occurred again and again, so that the Canon service was often busy with their replacement. The film gave the camera her name, Pellice closely. for pellicle called them.

The advantage of the fixed mirror was in the vibration triggering the camera. Also, you could see an image in the viewfinder during recording. This irritated less and helped to hold the camera steady. In addition, one can observe whether an inserted flash really triggered. The film looked like a gray filter and swallowed ½ f-stop light. Canon held these properties for so special that the model name great small side was standing next to the viewfinder and Canon, while it otherwise acted vice versa.

The viewfinder had a matte screen with a microprism collar. Since only a part of the light reached to the viewfinder, the viewfinder was darker than that of the FX.

Metering

The Canon Pellix it was after the Topcon RE Super and Penatax Spotmatic around the third small SLR with TTL metering. The exposure given this a CdS cell. She was not as usual on the prism, but directly behind the mirror and opened when triggering down. The film speed was set to 800/30 ° at shutter between ISO 10/11 ° and ISO. The measuring range was at ISO100/21 ° 1 s at f / 1,2 to 1/1000 sec at f/16.

Shutter

In contrast to the FX Pellix had a metal type, as would have been the danger with a cloth closure through the partially transparent mirror that the sun's rays burn holes in the cap. His fins you could see if you looked at a right angle to the film plane to the mirror. Shutter speeds you could set s 1 s to 1/ 1000 for the flash sync speed, there was the separate setting "X".

Power supply

The Pellix needed a PX 625 for the light meter. She was going to rely on the precise 1.35V voltage of this battery type.

Special lenses

Together with the Pellix Canon has the particularly flat lens FLP 38 mm, f / 2.8 released, which was allowed to be connected to the Pellix because the rear lens particularly far projected into the mirror box and no more room for the movement of a normal level was. The P in the designation FLP pointed out. Shortly thereafter introduced Canon nor the FL 19 mm, f / 3.5 R for the Pellix ago, a retro-focus construction, which allowed the mirror enough space. The ordinary FL 19 mm, f / 3.5 towered namely so far into the mirror box inside that one could fix it only with folded mirror, which naturally did not they Pellix.

Pellix QL

Period and classification

The Canon Pellix QL dissolved in March 1966 from the Pellix. She stayed until the appearance of the Canon FD bayonet in the program and then received no successor. The idea of ​​the partially transparent mirror handle Canon several times later on to get a particularly fast motor drive, but only for special models that emerged in small numbers.

With appearance of the FT QL Pellix missing some features, this led to Pellix QL.

QL system

The Quick Load system makes it easy film loading. It had only the film leader will be drawn out to a predetermined position, threaded, the film after the rear wall automatically.

Meter

The light meter could now be set from ISO 25/15 ° to ISO 2000/34 °, the measurement range was unchanged.

Canon Booster

The Pellix QL was also a port for the Canon Booster, which extended the range of the built-in CdS cell with a transistor amplifier for night shots. In him you could set 12800/42 °, a film speed of ISO 25/15 ° to ISO. At ISO 100/21 ° and f/1.2 was the measuring range between ½ s and 30 s The booster had a lighted instrument whose pointer was set to the center position. For this purpose he had a wheel with the times 60-30 - 15-8 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 1/ 2 - 1/ 4 - 1 /8 - 1/15 - 1/30 - 1 / 60th Since Cds cells respond sluggish in low light, it could take a minute more, until the pointer came to rest.

The booster had two battery compartments. Lower took two batteries of the same type as in the camera, to perform the measurement, the overlying battery camera to illuminate the instrument. This had to be taken namely because the booster connection was in the battery compartment of the Pellix QL.

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