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This week the DeLorean is firmly parked up in the year that saw the Berlin wall tumble; Motorola introduces the smallest mobile phone weighing 350g and costing a lot of money; the Space Shuttle Columbia returns safely to Earth. The year is 1989 which is also the year when the Canon EOS 600, also known as the 630, was released.

Headline features according to the manual, include: Focus Prediction control to help capture high speed subjects; 7 Programmed Image Controls (picture modes), for landscape, indoors and sports to name just three; 7 Custom Functions that include the very useful ‘leave film leader out when rewinding film.’ and finally a very respectful 5 frames per second motor drive built in. Just take a moment to listen to it by clicking on the image below.

On picking up the camera for the first time, the sculpted grip felt extremely comfortable.

While there may be menu driven options on this camera to chose from, they are well layed out and not to confusing.

The door concealing some buttons that control some of the custom functions. Held on by some tape!

I regularly use a close-up filter to get in nice and close to my subjects.

Sadly there seems to have been either a problem with the camera or the human operating it. Most of my close-ups are not pin sharp. I had to do a lot of sharpening to the above pictures. I am dissappointed. The only way to find out which of these is the cause is to try another film, with perhaps half (without the closeup filter) and the other half (with the filter in place).

Meanwhile time to move the DeLorean before the parking meter runs out 🙂