Following on the heels of Canon’s very successful, manual focus T70; in April of 1985 Canon released its T80, with an autofocus system built around their venerable FD lens mount. It was not a huge success, as its performance lagged behind Minolta's Maxxum 7000, which dominated the nascent AF SLR market at that time. Sales were not helped by Canon having only three autofocus lenses for the T80; a 50mm f/1.8 and two zooms – a 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5 and a 75-200mm f/4.
The T80 was discontinued after just 14 months. It was the FD lens mount’s last hurrah and relatively few were made.
