This camera revolutionized my shooting. I had started wearing glasses, and the eye relief allowed me to see the whole frame again. This was the first camera I owned that had program shift, it allowed my to concentrate on the image, and with one knob, tweak the shutter speed/aperture. This combined with ths first AF system that was fast and trust-worthy, I became less of a technophile, and more of a SHOOTER. I had two of these, one of which I later replaced with a Maxxum 9.