

The lens is probably focused around 8-10 feet, or 2.5.-3.0m.

CANON SNAPPY LX LANYARD MANUAL
With the flash switched on, the aperture opens up fully to F/3.8, but only when the ASA is at F/100-200 when at 400, the aperture goes to back to F8, (from F/11-16) got that?įocusing fixed, manual states from 4.6′ (1.3m). When setting the ASA to 400, the aperture goes to about F/11-16, see images below. Weight and size camera with batteries, 9.2oz (261g). Price K-Mart blue light special around $45 in 1989.īuild material black plastic body with a clear plastic window over the view finder, flash signal, and film reminder slot. Made in Malaysia.ĭate of manufacture late 1980s, early to mid 1990s? Oddly, the Olympus trip S uses the same basic camera but with a minor face-lift. Name Canon Snappy 30, similar to the Canon EZ, Canon Snappy K, CB 35 or Prima Junior in Europe.

So is this a super rare model, made only for a brief period by mistake? Or was it so awful that Canon doesn’t want to remember it? Either way, let’s take a closer look at the Canon Snappy 30. It looks like the Snappy 30 is a stripped down version of those models. I see plenty of Canon Snappy ‘EZ’ and Prima Juniors, but they do not exactly match my model, and have slightly different features. Oddly, I can’t seem to find a single page of information on Google for this particular model, even when scouring the Canon Museum site. I still get a kick out of running a roll through it every once in a while the technical image quality is pretty good, about the same as a top line $900 cell phone camera, but much quicker and easier to operate, and a whole lot less expensive pick up a nice copy on ebay for less than $10, or even less at a garage sale. When I bought it way back then I didn’t think I’d be using it almost 30 years later. At the time I thought I’d take a few rolls of what I needed, toss it in the drawer, and eventually it’d head to a garage sale or dumpster. I wanted to take some pictures of a house I was renovating, and did not have any other camera available. Year, month, day day, hour, minute with LCD for imprinting.I bought this weeks review camera brand new in 1989 it was a K-Mart blue light special blister-pack model and I think I paid about $45 for it. Counts down during film rewind.Īutomatic with built-in motor. Film advance speed: 1 fps.Ĭounts up during film advance. Automatic film advance with built-in motor. Red-eye reduction lamp provided.Īlign film leader at mark, then close the camera back for auto loading. Electronically-controlled automatic flash. Fires automatically in low-light conditions.
CANON SNAPPY LX LANYARD ISO
Film speeds: ISO 100 and 200/400 (with DX code)įixed built-in flash. Metering range of EV 10.5 – EV 16 (at ISO 100). Green OK-to-Shoot LED (lights for OK-to-Shoot and flash ready, turns off when battery is exhausted) and red-eye reduction lamp (lights and then blinks for single-shot or double-shot self-timer operation in AE mode).ĬdS cell for full-auto simple program EE. Built-in electronic self-timer (Two consecutive self-timer shots can be taken by pressing the self-timer button twice.). Fully automatic 35mm Lens-Shutter fixed-focus cameraĮlectronic three-speed (1/45 sec., 1/60 sec., 1/250 sec.) shutter and aperture.
