I'm unloading some equipment to make room for a new acquisition, and one thing I think I'll let go is my Canon EF body. It has a little brassing at the corners and could use a CLA (slow speeds 1-30 sec. are sticky, but normal speeds work) but otherwise in good working order. This camera used only Canon manual focus lenses (FD, FL, and R-mount), not EOS lenses (which are confusingly called "EF-mount" lenses).
The EF was unique in the Canon FD-mount line. It came in black and was built on the rugged F-series chassis, and had a Copal Square vertical-travel shutter with 1/125 sec. X-sync speed and electronically timed speeds from 1-30 sec. All other speeds are mechanical and will function even without batteries in the camera. If you have the right flash unit and compatible lens rings, it will support flashmatic operation, which was a bit cumbersome, but quite accurate. Also has mirror lockup and DOF preview, like the F-1 of the same era.
It also has a voltage regulation circuit, so the meter isn't quite so effected by battery quirks. It was designed for 1.3 v. mercury cells. I find it works with Wein 1.3 v. zinc-air cells or with 1.5 v. alkaline cells that have been allowed to age a bit so that they are not too far over voltage (very fresh batteries sometimes might be 1.6 or 1.7 volts, it seems).
$125 is less than I paid for it, but I think is a fair price in view of the sticky electronic shutter speeds. 1/2-1/1000 sec are fine. Figure about $8 shipping and insurance in the U.S., more elsewhere.
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