EOS 1V Film Roll Count Clarification | Buying

pziasd · 2023-05-19T13:45:29.325000Z

There are lots of vintage Canon EOS 1V film cameras for sale and many of the sellers show a photo of the 'roll count' or number of 36 exposure rolls of film that were shot with the camera. Its kind of like the shutter count of a contemporary Canon DSLR. I have both an EOS 1V and the instructions manual. On page 22 the manual explains how to set your film camera to imprint data on the film leader to ID which 1V body you used to shoot what roll of film. That way you can check the order in which roll of film was shot. The film count goes up each time you load a roll of 36 exposure film which is the top number, the bottom number is the user set number. Ex. If you have two 1Vs and you set the first user setting to 1 and the second camera you set the user setting to 2. You will know which roll of film was shot on which camera and in what sequence. You'd have to cycle through all of the user settings and add up the film count to determine exactly who many rolls of 36 exposure rolls of film were shot using the given 1V camera. The user setting can set from 01 to 99. This may not provide an accurate number of rolls of film that was shot in each camera. You'd need to ask the seller IF the user settable number in the photo is the only one. He would have to press <M.Fn> to cycle through to see if there are other numbers and if there are total up those numbers to ensure the seller is providing an accurate roll count. I bought my 1V with a the numbers of 63 over 1. Which means for the user setting of 1 there were 63 rolls of film exposed. There were no other user settable numbers that displayed. The EOS 1V instruction manual is available in PDF form on a number of websites. Begin with page 22 and go from there. Thanks.

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