Canon Mirror Box
Reflex housing • Discontinued
- Production status:
- ● Discontinued
- System:
- · Canon S (LSM) (1949)
Manufacturer description
MIRROR REFLEX HOUSING
For use with 800mm f:8 lens. Includes 108mm screw-in adapter ring. Used with Double Cable Release and Focusing Glass.
FOCUSING GLASS
For use with 800mm f:8 lens. Mounts on top of the Mirror Reflex Housing. Magnification 5X.
From the editor
Introduced in 1953.
Canon produced three telephoto lenses for use with the Mirror Box: the 200/3.5, 400/4.5 and 800/8.
Canon Camera Museum also lists 600/5.6 I ("Marketed September 1958") but we think that this lens never existed because it was not mentioned in Canon's booklets and price lists published in 1958-1960 (unlike the 200/3.5 and 400/4.5; as for the 800/8, it was already out of production at the time).