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- The Canon T90 marks the peak of manual focus SLR design and screams 1980s. Watch this video for a full history, commercials, ads and how to use it.
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00:06 Canon T90 Commercial
01:30 History of the Canon T90
19:25 How to Use a Canon T90
23:03 Canon T90 sample photos with Kentmere 100
23:59 Canon T90 Pros and Cons
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These in depth historical reviews are fantastic!
Thank you :)
The Canon T90 was the last manual focus camera I used, it was incredibly advanced and practical. Especially the flash technology when coupled to the 300TL. It made my F1N feel instantly obsolete.
In high school I saved up every cent for years and bought a T90 in 1986. I still have it and use it whenever I can.It is a great, great and highly under-rated camera.
That's awesome Paul :)
I have a T90, awesome camera. Always cool to learn about the history from your detailed reviews. Thank you for making my day!
Glad I could help :) Thanks Duje!
I am lucky to have a "as new" t-90 in perfect condition purchased in 1990. This was my last film camera. I wish modern digital cameras had multi-spot metering. You have given me some motivation to start using it again.
This camera was a beast. It's to manual focus cameras what the Nikon F6 was to AF film cameras.
PMS... lol
I like the anaolgy!
I just acquired a T90 today at a camera show. It came with a nice Tamron 28-200 lens. You are the first person I went to first for in depth information on this camera.
Thoroughly enjoyed review. This was my all-time favorite camera. I deliberately skipped the T80 because the auto focus of the day was slow and not always very accurate. I sold my AE-1 to buy this model. Having an A1 with the T90 was a great setup. I used them through the years I was in Asia. Sadly lost it in the Camp Fire when our home was lost with 14,000 others (along with 5,000 out buildings. It was the kind of kit (together with my Sigma to 17 to 35mm, 35mm to 210mm, and t
50mm 1.2 lens) that I never thought of selling.
I just wish they had made a digital sensor back for this camera as they had done with some other cameras.
I remember the debut of the T90. I looked at it but bought the F1New in 1986 after using an AE1P for three years. I had all the FD lenses I wanted already but lots of people were seriously mad when Canon dropped the FD lens line. I thought they should have incorporated the autofocus EOS into the T90. I guess time moves on whether you like it or not. Still no one was jumping ship for Nikon since the EOS autofocus was superior to Nikons system which retained the FD mount.
The T90 is brilliant. I had to try a couple of times before I got a good second hand copy of the camera, but it sure was worth the trouble.
The T90 is also the perfect camera for creating camera sound effects, if you ask me, but that's a side note.
Great review! Entertaining yet packed with useful and interesting information. ⭐️👍🏻
Thanks very much Bernt!
What an amazing wealth of hard-to-find T90 info, expertly narrated. Thank you. The camera is a joy to use.
Thanks for the kind words Ronald :)
Incredible video and production! Thank you mate 📸🤩
You're very welcome :)
Awesome video, I love the T-90, going to start using it again, my favorite camera EVER!--- just amazing how well it works! thank you for putting this together!
azriel, your videos are positively superb. we are lucky to have you!
Hey, thanks so much :)
As always a stellar in depth review, I had a ton of fun taking mine out to the river this summer, it's a beast but well worth it!
Thanks very much!
Excellent production and research. I found the multiple program modes fascinating. The imagery was pretty cool and proved to be the climax of the production. Well done as always.
Thanks so much :)
This was so in depth, I had to follow and like. Amazing video.
Thanks Anthony!
I have got the Canon training manual on the T90, and even that is built like a tank, with plasticised pages. Also, don't forget there's mod, to allow you to keep the film tab out on the T90. It's just a solder blob on the top board. This mod makes this camera perfect for me, as I can finish films later on, by taking them out, and putting them back in when I need to.
Great work!
I still have mine from new and I'm not selling it. Thank you
Good decision.. After I purchased my first Canon T90, and discovered it after 1 year of use, I purchased 2 other bodies from ebay, almost 12 years ago, got them immediately CAL'ed. They all work like a charm. The spotmter metering is dead on comparing to my Pentax Spotmeter V calibrated by Quality Light-Metric, in Hollywood California, and with my Minolta Spotmeter M..
Will never sell them, too..no matter what..Said that, the camera, any camera. Is just a black box. I the camera body is tight seed for light, and if built-in shutter is accurate at all speeds, the most important part is the quality of the lens you put in..and of course the Photographer eye..behind d the camera..and and the quality of the light, and the location, and...sorry, the list is too, and at the end. LUCK , 😢😢😢
Yes, finally! A video about the T90! I have two of them. One with the rare PC sync port modification
Oh neat! Like aftermarket?
Nice new intro sequence Azriel, I like the higher production quality!
Thanks so much!!
as always you are very informative and interesting
Thank you Ernest!
I just dug out my T90 and gave it a hug - I love it. Grew up in a camera store in Halifax N.S. and it was my pick of the litter. Great job!!
Awesome!
I had a T-90 back in the 90s and I absolutely loved that camera. So much so that I just ordered a used one from Japan. Going back to my roots. I started with film. Looking forward to shooting some rolls with the T-90.
Love the new intro man! It's the TANK!
TANK you very much :)
I do remember this Colani (german designer) designed FD-Mount T90. I even had it hold into my hands from a friend, back into the day, which was being very proud of it. I was never being a fan of this design...but the T90 had many advanced features, back into it's heyday.
I had one. Curiously, the feature I miss most - multiple spot metering - is rarely mentioned. I've only seen it on an Olympus - OM4, I guess. It was a pleasure to use. But after changing two shutter in a period of 5 years, I sold it and ran to the reliability of the Nikon F2 mechanics, which I own until today and never needed a shutter exchange...
The technician at Canon's tech assistance here in Brazil said something like "yeah, it happens, some photojournalists change it quite often, but it's a great camera..." At least the shutters were not expensive. Just unreliable...
But the multi spot metering was VERY useful. If only it were more reliable
While doing the research it was one of the most surprising features.
The multi-spot was brazenly stolen from Olympus. Why it wasn't incorporated into later cameras is a mystery.
@@AndrewGronow exactly! I can't understand why not until today!
@@AzrielKnight and it was incredible to use. Precise. I shot mostly chromes and all were perfect
Love these videos. If you're a vintage SLR enthusiast/obsessive, they're like illicit drugs - addicting. Keep up the good work!
I love these videos!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you Gianluca!
The EOS 650 came out into march 1987...I had one, about 1990...but wasn't happy with the build quality, or the SLR into general. I liked much more my Minolta gear.
Minolta is a solid choice!
More of this please! It's so interesting to see how people in the 80's used to make a purchase decision and what was important to the reviewers of the time. Thanks for the insight, great stuff!
also it's incredible how different the T90 was in design language to literally every other SLR back then, since we are pretty much used to the more rounded look of camera bodys today
Awsome T90 review dude...the best I found on FB
On Facebook?! Where? :)
@@AzrielKnight Whoops...UTube ;-)
nice to see another video! 😁😁
Thanks!
I never owned any "T" model cameras. A friend of mnie back in that era bought a T70. I didn't like it and figured I'd feel the same about all Ts. I stuck with A1 and F1N until the the 650/620 hit the market.
I would love it if you did such a video on the new F-1, the literature you dig up is amazing!
Thanks so much. Coming across one is a bit of an investment, but one day :)
Thanks for a great presentation! I still have the T90 I purchased in 1988. I think I will check if it works still...
I have had a T90 since about the mid 2000’s. I’ve put several rolls of film through it, and love it! Even though I have a New F1 with the motor drive, it’s heavy!! I also only have manual & shutter priority, since I do not have the AE Finder to allow aperture priority. Of all my FD Mount cameras, also including the family T70 & a T50, and previously the non program version of the AE-1, I reach more often for the T90. My trusty Elan 7e (also my very first SLR purchase) is the only film camera I use more often than the T90. If the T90 had autofocus, and evaluative metering, I might actually use it more than the Elan 7?!
AA Batteries explode in these and can eat the power cables. I had to resolder mine. Was all that was wrong with it. Meant I got it for about a quarter the price of a working on on the fleabay.
I've an Eos650 to compare it too - and there really is a big difference between the pair. The 650 is just a lot less fussy to use. The T90 feels like a prototype in many ways. It's like a feathered velociraptor - the apex of the cretaceous, pointing at what's to come after.
On the other hand, the automated double-exposure button has let me do some interesting photographs.
Its best feature is that it runs on AA batteries - so you'll always find power.
Azriel -- as usual, great and in-depth history and review. But don't forget the T60 -- the 5th T-series camera from Canon, released in 1990 -- actually the last FD-mount Canon camera. But not often considered a "real" T-model -- plain-jane design and features. More like a batch of basic, manual-focus, FD-mount components thrown together to use up stock and make a few last dollars in the FD-mount/manual focus arena.
I think i've come across one or two T60s in my day but not in working order.
@@AzrielKnight -- I have one with a shutter issue, and another that seems to work fine (have yet to test it) -- but I'd love to take a T90 for a test drive!!!! 🙂
bought mine in 87.. still have it, still use it
Amazing!
I'd argue that the Contax RTSIII was the most advanced manual focus 35mm camera ever made, but the T90 would be a close second.
i wonder why canon dropped the fd breech lock mount. one of its great design features included the avoidance of grating metal against metal at the interior edge-point of the camera's body.
That's a good point. I think it came down to the user. I know I've fiddle farted with the lock to make sure it's in place before trying to mount it and I know people who have had theirs stuck on the camera.
I can also imagine a photojournalist needing something faster and more one handed for quick changes.
I have a T-90 in which have some of the FD mounted lenses, But I also got a FD to Nikon F mount adapter as for the metering that I Stop Down Metering, using the Center Weight Metering mode, and it is very Accurate Exposure mode in using my Nikkor lenses in which I use the 50mm F2.0, 43-86mm 3.5 zoom, 135mm 3.5, and 35mm 2.8 ALL Nikkors... Good Video, I Missed Pop, and Modern Photo.
Thanks for the comment Alex. No rips in space/time after combining Canon and Nikon eh?
Great video, however your timeline as described in the video is wrong. In the U.K at least, the T-80 was released in 1981 then the T-50 in 1982 followed by the T-70 and T-90. There was also the T-60 released in the early 1990s in U.K
Nice!
Thanks for the video!
Does the camera have that annoying melting plastic that makes things sticky?
As far as I know it doesn't. Mine doesn't anyway.
If someone wants to use a FD system, I'll recommend the T90. F1n and FTB for more hard core users. But not the A1 and certainly not the AE1 AE1 program. And lately, by sheer number of AE1's who are dead (due to electronics) never to be reawaken to life ever agin, I was right. But somehow, if not dropped from the 5th floor, T90's are still going strong...
Great comment, thanks :)
I had a T80, and enjoyed it. But the lens selection was limited.
the comparison to Porsche... The 928 is long dead too.
Also, if you want to find T90 ads, it is possible that you might find some in Nat Geo. Canon used to advertise there a _lot_ back then.
i have 3 t90's in mint condition. i hardly use them because i mainly shoot medium format but refuse to sell them. just make sure to fire the shutter every week just to stop the magnet sticking issue which seems to be common with them in this day and age
Thanks for the tip Nick!
This was my wifes favorite SLR. Sadly it was stolen years ago.
Man, that really sucks.
Now you know what to buy her for Christmas! ;-)
Hmm. I have never heard of this camera, only the T70 that you talked about on the first episode of this series.
But that's still cool.
By the way, think you might cover some more interesting and unique cameras? I think the Minolta Maxxum 7 and 9 are pretty cool, in my opinion.
I would definitely consider talking about more unique cameras in some ways. I just need to figure out how to keyword it so people find the video and it doesn't get buried.
@@AzrielKnight Always have to keep keywords in mind, I guess.
Yeah it's a bit of a pain, but there is a sweet spot. Pic something too popular and it gets buried, and not popular enough and no one is looking.
@@AzrielKnight It's a pain, but it is just something you have to go to be seen.
So I understand.
Great Review on the marketing efforts to make me want to buy stuff
I’d like to add my experience with the T90 summer of 2022.
I have an OG F1 with 4 FD lenses. I was inspired to find a backup body for the F1 so that I don’t orphan the 4 lenses.
Somewhere in a forum it was highly recommended to get a T90 as it was the most advanced camera that still used the FD lenses.
First one I bought worked fine, the next 3 were duds. They all have the EEEE error which says there’s an shutter error. This error is either stuck shutter magnets, or a stuck shutter due to the decomposition of bushings that flow into the base of the shutter blades sticking the blades in place. I’ve followed several internet tips to get them to work with no success.
To buy this camera, it would be wise to seek one that is certified to have a working shutter. As Azirel points out there are no new spare parts, if you are brave enough to open the camera and repair it yourself the part you need is probably wore out in a parts camera too. Also I’ve looked into the repair manual and to open it up to check the mechanicals one has to desolder several connections. I’ve not been brave enough to go that far so the three duds are in body bags for now. I’ll probably look at another F1 as a backup for my lenses
This is a great point, and as a DIY hater I am not prepared for when mine fails :P
I was wondering about this camera. There is one available in my local camera store for $150. I was debating on it but getting another camera with a different lens mount to what I already have is kinda out of the picture.
I wouldn't spend $150 on a camera without a return policy.
What an absolute beast of a camera. Would it be possible to move the teleprompter further back? Once I noticed the eye movement, I couldn't unsee it...
Unfortunetely i need to be able to reach out and focus.
Is there any way to get those Modern Photography magazines?
eBay
Haven't watched yet, but boy oh boy that thumbnail has me hoping this camera has a clear plastic body like all the cool 90s electronics!
lol, sorry to disappoint.
I owned one back in the 80s it was the only camera at the time to tempt me away from the Nikons I was using the 50mm FD lens was super to shoot with you had to be careful as 4.5 fps would eat your roll of film in seconds
Yeah. Not nearly as much of a 'feature' these days. :)
@@AzrielKnight no with digital you don’t have to worry but as I shoot mostly film now my MD12 on my FM2n or my MD-4 on my F3hp can cause me to be nervous lol 😂 but the sounds is beautiful that was one of the reasons I bought the T90 at the time 👍🏻
@@AzrielKnight well I did it I just bought one mint with 50mm 1.8 FD lens all for £80 with a brochure included looking forward to getting reacquainted with one again thanks 😊
Quick question. At 9:55, the magazine shows the T90 with an autofocus lens from the T80 line. Do you know why that is since this camera did not have autofocus ability?
Good question Gabi. TBH I have no idea.
@@AzrielKnight fair enough haha
is it made of would?
I don't know if it's the most advanced manual SLR ever made, I think that would have to go to one of the later Contax models, yeah?
I said arguably the most ;)
Apparently you haven't play with a T90 yet.
It is indeed the one of the most, if not the most advanced 35mm film camera ..but again, this is my personal opinion, and do respect yours.
If the T90 is the best 35mm film camera, then what about the Nikon F6? F5? F4? F3?
You know I may just need to look for one to add to my camera collection it is fun to shoot with your not helping my GAS lol 😂
Sorry :)
@@AzrielKnight don’t be I am not lol 😂
shoot Azriel now I want one
lol, sorry.
Pro tip, load the T90 with Energizer Lithium batteries to decrease weight dramatically and to prevent the chance of acid leakage and permanent damage to the camera.
Oh interesting! The batteries are that much lighter?
@@AzrielKnight Absolutely! Give it a try.
I really think you should shoot those grain elevators up closer in large or at least in medium format.
Could you ask for permission to trespass and record? Just my humble opinion.
Thanks for the comment!
Sometimes I do get closer, and sometimes I do shoot them in medium format
Ahh the time of amazing but in my opinion just ugly slrs.
You're not wrong.
The T-90 brochure was so thick that it felt like an instruction manual.