Canon Autoboy Super 39-85

It’s not that I’m working my way through this book buying each camera. But I have managed to track down a Canon Autoboy Super 39-85. It was made in the 1980’s at a point where they had got rather good at this kind of thing.

It is quite chunky. It won’t fit in a pocket. But it does take really good pictures. The auto focus lens is super sharp, the auto exposure does a good job and the flash zooms with the lens, so your indoor pictures look great. It has a party trick; there’s a clip out remote control in the base of the camera you can use to take selfies from a distance. There’s also an “Infinity” button you can press to stop the auto focus making a mess of landscape shots.

YOu can get some nice out of focus effects

The detail in these flowers is really nice

They made quite a few of these. They are a bit too large to be totally fashionable so you can pick them up cheaply. Mine cost less than a video game, which is my standard benchmark for these purchases. If you want something distinctive to pull out at parties and when out and about you should take a look.