Camera Name: | Canon EOS-1V |
Date: | March 2000 |
Production: | 2000–2018 |
Focus: | TTL Phase Detection Autofocus (45 zone) |
Exposure: | TTL max. aperture metering with 21-zone Evaluative metering Partial metering Centre spot metering Focusing point-linked spot metering Multi-spot metering |
Flash: | None |
Frame-Rate: | 4 frame/s, 10 frame/s with PB-E2 |
Dimensions: | 161 x 120.8 x 70.8 mm, 945 g without battery nor film; 1380 g with PB-E2 grip but still without battery nor film[1] |
Price: | 270,000¥[2] |
The Canon EOS-1V is a 35mm single-lens reflex camera from Canon's EOS series, released in 2000.[3] The body design formed the basis for Canon's subsequent Canon EOS-1D and EOS-1Ds families of digital SLRs. The 1V was the last model of Canon professional film cameras before it was discontinued on May 30, 2018.[4]
Canon used the suffix 'V' because the camera introduced the fifth generation of Canon professional SLRs, after the Canon F-1 and New F-1, the Canon T90, and earlier EOS 1 models; Canon also stated that the 'V' stands for "vision".[5]
The EOS 1V was the fastest moving-mirror film camera ever put into production at the time it was introduced, at 10 frames/second with the PB-E2 power drive booster and the NP-E2 Ni-MH battery pack. (Although the 1nRS has a higher frame rate, it used a fixed pellicle mirror rather than a moving mirror). Only the latest professional digital cameras are faster, for example the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II with 16fps.