{"product_id":"canon-7-flash-unit-coupler-with-box-cable","title":"Canon 7 Flash Unit Coupler","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: 88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. This flash unit coupler is in near perfect condition and comes with the original box and cable. A rare find in this condition. Keep scrolling for the full story or skip to the one picture (it was a busy day and we ran out of time).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/rangefinders-for-purists\" title=\"Shop our rangefinder film cameras\"\u003eCanon 7 \u003c\/a\u003earrived in 1961 at the shimmering, self-assured height of Japanese rangefinder ambition. It was brilliant. The kind of brilliance that makes engineers stand straighter and accountants nervous. Canon’s designers had done something undeniably clever. They built a selenium exposure meter directly into the top plate. It was sleek, integrated, and modern. It was the future, tidily bolted down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in the manner of so many futures, it arrived having quietly misplaced the past. The standard accessory shoe was gone. Sacrificed on the altar of progress like a sensible pair of shoes at a fashion show. If you wished to mount a flash or an external viewfinder, you were left staring at a camera that had suddenly misplaced its manners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe solution was a side bayonet mount. A dignified way of saying they moved the inconvenience somewhere less conspicuous. Onto this clipped the Flash Unit Coupler. It didn't electronically sync your flash; it simply gave you a place to put the thing. It's, at heart, a workaround for a workaround. We call this innovation, though it often feels like housekeeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe irony's what the coupler's used for today. Almost no one mounts a flash. Instead, it's become the favoured perch for viewfinders paired with ultra-wide lenses. Glass so ambitiously expansive that the camera’s own finder simply declines to participate. The built-in meter, once the headline act, is now incidental; the afterthought accessory's become the star.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo certain photographers, a Canon 7 without its coupler is a sentence that refuses to land on its period. To everyone else, it’s a gleaming reminder that progress has a habit of misplacing its shoes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47458540617915,"sku":"CAN-FLA-35M-GD-100093","price":128.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/CAN-FLA-35M-GD-100093-canon-flash-unit-coupler-rangefinder-vintage-camera-used-0001.jpg?v=1771371358","url":"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/products\/canon-7-flash-unit-coupler-with-box-cable","provider":"Fox and Talbot Cameras","version":"1.0","type":"link"}