A new addition to my small collection of Canon Sure Shot cameras arrived yesterday. The Sure Shot Ace.
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It's a fully automatic point and shoot with very little user control. Shutter speed, aperture, flash, film speed are all automatic and can't be overridden. It has a 38mm f/3.5 lens. It
is auto-focus with focus lock though.
If this were all it offered I probably wouldn't have bothered, but it does have a couple of unusual features up its sleeve that make it interesting.
Firstly, in addition to a standard viewfinder, it also has a waist level finder. This is what attracted me to the camera. I know there are a few other compacts with this feature, but they tend to be very pricey Yashica and Kyocera models. It could be useful for street photography or just getting shots that are normally impossible or awkward with a standard viewfinder.
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Secondly, it has a detachable remote trigger, which may also be useful (although I've not yet thought of anything that I probably couldn't already achieve with the self timer).
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It seems odd that an otherwise unremarkable and basic-spec camera would have these features (I don't think they're available in any other Sure Shot models), but it will be fun testing it out.