Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I suspect in Canon's speak, AE stood for 'auto exposure' and the AE-1 offered 'shutter priority AE'. The Canon A-1 was launched in April 1978 and it offered: Av mode - aperture priority AE Tv mode - shutter priority AE P mode - programmed AE Stopped-down aperture priority mode Speedlite AE mode - non-TTL auto flash mode Manual mode The original F-1 was launched in March 1971. I got mine in September that year as my first 'real' camera. Had Kodak Instantmatics prior to that. My 1978 A-1 is still going strong, and that Motor Drive MA still gives 5 fps. Bests, Joseph - previous die-hard FD user/collector. on 9/5/02 2:05 am, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > Right you are...It was really an SP camera, not an AE, despite Canon hanging > that name on it....And how could I have been off by four years? Good God! So > it really only took Leica 26 years, not, as I inferred, 30 years, to come up > with essentially the same degree of "automation" Canon introduced to its > line in...1976.;-) > > B. D. > > And then there was the Canon A1 - a wonderful machine, introduced when, > Joseph? I don't recall the year but I do know that I bought one to use along > with my original F1 body, and I believe I recall that it had Shutter > Priority, ApPriority, Manual, and full Auto - right? :-) I also know that I > sold mine to an editor colleague at Newsday in the mid-1980s, and when last > he and I spoke, around 1998 or so, it was still going strong. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html