Several times I've come close to buying one at a swap meet. Each time I found
the Dial 35 was inoperative. I have been told it is becuse film needs to be
in. Yet, when I depress the latch or two that I see (? frame counter reset)
and tried to cycle the camera (spring wind advance) nothing happens (of
course, the seller never seems to have test film).

Any owners of the Dial 35 with comments on this? I think it has automated
exposure so perhaps a battery needs to be installed (that big glass selenium
looking thing if I recall is not a meter).
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I remember the Canon Dial 35s fondly: seems to me when I was
in High School, they were all over the place. Nowadays, they've
gotten pretty rare. I'm tempted to buy one whenever I see it.

I always wanted a Pen F and a couple years back, I bought a
Pen FT with 38/1.8 and 50-90 zoom lens. Quite nice, I took
it to Ireland and England in summer '95 and have a huge pile of
excellent pictures I took with it. But that was about the only
time I used it. Although it was a lovely camera, it didn't really
pose that large a space savings over my Nikon SLR and the standard
35mm frame is simply twice the negative area in an only marginally
larger package. I sold it last year in another one of my massive
equipment swapfests. ;)

In answer to Don's question, the Pen FT and other Olympus Pen
cameras normally held position the frame vertically, so they're
great for portrait shooting.

Hmm, I'll have to pull up a couple of Pen FT images for The Sub
Club gallery now ... :)

Godfrey
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:37:37 -0500
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From: Joe McGloin <XKAES@A...>
Subject: Re: Canon Dial 35 (was Re: Half-frame user)

You DO need to have film in the camera for it to operate. You do NOT need a
battery. The battery just operates the meter and you can set the meter to
manual by pulling out the meter button -- pushed in it operates in auto mode.
Different models used different batteries. The meter is a CDS meter under
ONE of the selenium-looking dial around the lens. When you dial in the ISO,
the appropriate "lens" moves over the CDS cell to alter the amount of light
allowed to hit the CDS cell.
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