Tag: 90s compact

Canon Sureshot Sleek

Canon Sureshot Sleek

Reading Time: 4 minutes This little compact was first produced in 1996, as part of Canon’s hugely successful Sureshot range.  It is a wonderful pocket sized camera, which performs very well at metering, handling tricky exposures.

It has an in built flash, with a guide number of 7.5; with automatic, red eye reduction, and suppressed modes. One thing that is useful is that these are set by a dial, not a menu, so you can keep the flash suppressed when the camera is switched off.

Canon Sureshot AF-7

Canon Sureshot AF-7

Reading Time: 3 minutes Another 75p bargain find, in good optical, mechanical and cosmetic condition. All the documentation I can find online describes this as either the ‘Sureshot Owl’ (American Market) or Prima AF-7 (European Market). But as you can see in the image, my copy definitely says ‘Sureshot