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Canon 110ED 20

The Canon 110ED 20 was released in September of 1977, as a successor to the Canon 110ED of 1975. Canon released this new model in order to offer a camera that was compatible with the new ISO 400 film that had become available in the 110 format. Canon continued to raise the bar with this 110ED 20 model, by offering a camera that was full of features that appealed to a serious 110 photographer. You could almost argue that the 110ED 20 was meant to be a "professional" 110 camera, if such a thing ever truly did exist. If you consider yourself a serious 110 photographer, this camera ought to be on the short list of 110 cameras you consider owning.

The 110ED 20 has rangefinder focusing and manual aperture control. The camera can immediately match the shutter speed to the selected aperture, in order to achieve correct exposure. The electronic shutter has a range of speeds from 2 seconds up to 1/1000th of a second. In the event of battery failure, the shutter can still be fired at a mechanical 1/125th of a second. To complement these features, the Canon 110ED 20 has a hotshoe, as well as tripod and cable release sockets. The cherry on top is the excellent five element 26mm f/2 lens, which was the fastest lens on a 110 camera at the time.

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Canon 110 ED 20 : 110 perfection

Want to talk about amazing 110 cameras? How about the Canon 110ED 20. This camera is kind of unassuming at first, because it resembles so many of the Pocket Instamatic style cameras produced in that era, but run down the list of its features and you will be impressed in very short order.⁠

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First up, the 110ED 20 is rangefinder focusing. Yup, that's right. How many 110 cameras give you critical focusing capabilities like that? Sure, there are some, such as the Pentax Auto 110 and the Minolta 110 Zoom which are SLR style focusing. There are even a couple other rangefinder 110s out there, but the list is short. Anytime we see a 110 camera that allows us to precisely focus, we take note. ⁠

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Additionally, the Canon 110ED 20 also has manual aperture control with a stepless shutter, ranging from 2 seconds on the slow end all the way up to 1/1000th on the fast end. Of course, a shutter capable of 2 second exposures is going to need a tripod and, thankfully, this 110 has both a tripod socket and a cable release socket (also rare features to see on any 110). ⁠

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You may not need to use that 2 second exposure very often because the camera has a 26mm f/2 lens; which, at the time, was perhaps the fastest lens you could find on 110. Oh, and it also has a hotshoe. We're not making this stuff up! It's like Canon made a list of all the features lacking in most other 110 cameras and then added them into this one.⁠

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We forgot to mention, that while the camera is largely battery dependent, the shutter will still fire at 1/125th without battery power.⁠

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Last but not least, the camera will imprint the date on the negatives for you, including day, month, and year. The year ranges from 77-87. We are assuming this meant that Canon expected this camera to still be working when the year 2077 finally rolls around. Who knows, maybe it will still be firing away in 3077 as well.⁠