I have no idea how this mix-up came to be, my camera isn’t pictured at all on Canon’s online camera museum and I have found online pictures of it marked both “AF-7” and “AF-8” so be careful if you set out to buy one. Now, if you google “Sure Shot AF-8” my camera pops up. My camera is clearly marked “Sure Shot AF-7”, but if you google that, you’ll most likely come up with a similar but definitely different-looking camera. There is a little bit of confusion online regarding the actual name of this particular Sure Shot. The Canon Sure Shot AF-7 (or is it AF-8?) Hopefully, sometime soon I’ll be able to contribute something to the M-Leica section, but for now I’d like to share my feelings for one of my favorite P&S compacts which also happens to be one of the cheapest and simplest film cameras I’ve used so far. Since I started shooting film, a big part of my photos have been made with cheap, plastic point ‘n shoot compacts which exert a special attraction on me, equal to that exerted by the full-metal vintage SLRs and rangefinders I also like to use. I find Hamish’s approach to the whole project very interesting, especially his willingness to expand the blog by inviting other people to contribute. I started following “35mmc” a few months ago and since then I’ve been visiting on an almost daily basis. It was love at first sight and as soon as I had some of them serviced and ready to shoot, my Nikon D90 found its way to someone else’s camera bag. ![]() I often fiddled with my Dad’s Trip 35 as a child (a camera I still have and use occasionally) but those beasts were completely different. He kept the Leicas and the Rolleiflexes, but he was kind enough to let me have the Spotmatics, the Canonets and the Yashicas (among others) which literally changed the way I saw photography until then. Then about 4 years ago I came by a small inheritance of vintage film cameras, given to me by a close relative after his father (who was an avid camera collector) passed away. Although I’m old enough to have most of my life’s important moments captured on film, it wasn’t until digital cameras became widely available in the early 00’s that I started taking photography a bit more seriously.
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