Chinon CP-5s

I have been a fan of Chinon camera gear from many years. I just recently hunted this one down on eBay, and I absolutely love it so far. The "S" in the name is for spot metering! It's also what Chinon called a "twin program" model. P1 is for shooting fast moving scenes (prioritizing faster shutter speeds as possible), and P2 is for non-moving subjects or slow moving subjects (it prioritizes greater depth of field). That's pretty cool and I may play with it, although I'm most likely to keep shooting in A or M mode as I typically do. Build quality seems great, and the film advance is very smooth (ball bearings?). It has an all plastic shell, but I read somewhere it does have a metal chassis under the hood. Oh, and it's very comfortable to hold thanks to the nice size hand grip. The grip doubles as the battery chamber, holding 3 AAA batteries. I'm also quite pleased about that - it's great that it uses relatively cheap and easy to find batteries.

 

Photo taken with a Nikon D200 and AF-S DX Micro Nikkor 40mm f/2.8G.

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