Can anyone identify this camera?
Dec 25, 2021 17:44:05 #
Racmanaz
Loc: Sunny Tucson!
I saw this on a recent Youtube video but I can't figure out what model this is, all I can see clearly is that it's a Canon. Just curious, is this a digital or film camera? The location is somewhere in Spain.
Dec 25, 2021 17:51:45 #
Canon AE-1 (or AE-1 Program)?
The battery door is the same as my AE-1, with the stop-down metering lever on the right (of the image).
The battery door is the same as my AE-1, with the stop-down metering lever on the right (of the image).
Dec 25, 2021 17:56:09 #
Racmanaz wrote:
I saw this on a recent Youtube video but I can't figure out what model this is, all I can see clearly is that it's a Canon. Just curious, is this a digital or film camera? The location is somewhere in Spain.
Canon AE-1 film camera. Responsible for more bad yearbook photos than any other camera used by students in the late 1970s — early ‘80s. AE = Auto Exposure. Mediocre metering for automation and no user knowledge make a mess of B&W and a disaster of color slides.
(I worked for a yearbook publisher from ‘79 to ‘87. Yearbooks looked way better in the prior decades.)
Dec 25, 2021 17:59:09 #
The lettering is just light enough to be unsure, but I'd say an AE-1. Canon had a few other chrome and black models in the 70s with a similar shape.
Dec 25, 2021 18:03:21 #
Racmanaz
Loc: Sunny Tucson!
CHG_CANON wrote:
The lettering is just light enough to be unsure, but I'd say an AE-1. Canon had a few other chrome and black models in the 70s with a similar shape.
I wonder how common it is to use a film camera in Europe these days. This photo was clipped from a video from Oct. 2021.
Dec 25, 2021 18:07:41 #
It's the AE-1 and not AE-1p. The AE-1 Program has the taller shutter speed dial not the 1 finger type like the AE-1.
Yeah I worked at the 1 hour photofinishing shop in early 80's and most of the shots made with the AE-1 were poor exposure. Mostly under exposure. I don't think it was the camera to blame. I have one although I never used it I tested it carefully and the the meter and shutter speeds seem to be just fine.
Yeah I worked at the 1 hour photofinishing shop in early 80's and most of the shots made with the AE-1 were poor exposure. Mostly under exposure. I don't think it was the camera to blame. I have one although I never used it I tested it carefully and the the meter and shutter speeds seem to be just fine.
Dec 25, 2021 18:08:47 #
Racmanaz wrote:
I wonder how common it is to use a film camera in Europe these days. This photo was clipped from a video from Oct. 2021.
From a comment I made a few minutes ago from another thread, maybe Brie Larson and her Leica M3 has something to do with the film renaissance?
Personally, I've done some walkaround with an AE-1 within the past 5ish years, before moving onto AF-enabled film equipment. I now use those same FD manual focus lenses on digital mirrorless that yields a lens/body combo that is roughly the same size and weight.
Dec 25, 2021 18:09:02 #
Amator21
Loc: California
Racmanaz wrote:
I saw this on a recent Youtube video but I can't figure out what model this is, all I can see clearly is that it's a Canon. Just curious, is this a digital or film camera? The location is somewhere in Spain.
No, but it is a nice shoulder. It reminds me of the old story of the only one that noticed that Lady Godiva rode a horse!
Poul.
Dec 25, 2021 18:27:05 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
The lettering is just light enough to be unsure, but I'd say an AE-1. Canon had a few other chrome and black models in the 70s with a similar shape.
It is. I'd recognize the beast anywhere.
I have an A-1 Program, evolved from that. In subsequent years, Canon got their act together with metering and then AF when they switched mounts (best decision they ever made, but they were criticized roundly for it). But I hated these bastards. Most of the yearbook photographers I taught at workshops had these, or the AE-1 Program, an '81 model. They made them brain-dead lazy about exposure metering. I favored the older FX and FTb, and the Pentax Spotmatic (preferably the Asahi flavor from 1960s). I had a Nikkormat FTn that I liked at first. It wasn't really a Nikon, though. They contracted it out to Chinon or Cosina or someone whose name started with a C, if I remember right. The ceramic metering resistor didn't last. A little dust made it intermittent.
Dec 25, 2021 18:40:47 #
burkphoto wrote:
It is. I'd recognize the beast anywhere. br br I... (show quote)
You didn't say it but I guess you meant the person who picked the AE-1 became brain dead not so much that the camera was bad. If so that was my observation too.
Dec 25, 2021 18:54:57 #
Racmanaz wrote:
I saw this on a recent Youtube video but I can't figure out what model this is, all I can see clearly is that it's a Canon. Just curious, is this a digital or film camera? The location is somewhere in Spain.
It can be any one of the Canon "A" series cameras, except for the "A1, black". I recognize the battery door as belonging to the "A" Canon. I have all of the "A" series cameras except for the so-called AE Program. They are all good cameras but my favorite for some reason was the camera that I gave to my daughter who was taking a photo class in HS and that beauty was the AV1 - an aperture priority camera. She gave it back to me as she discovered the camera in her phone was fine with her.
The Black A1 camera for some reason was not my favorite but that probably was because of my Developer that I was using. My favorite Canon pre-auto focus was and is my T90.
Dec 25, 2021 19:06:42 #
no12mo wrote:
It can be any one of the Canon "A" serie... (show quote)
It's the original AE-1. Except for the A1 which significantly different among the AV-1, AE-1 program all of them has tall shutter speed dial not the 1 finger type. The AT-1 has the same shutter speed dial but that doesn't look like the T after the A.
Dec 25, 2021 19:59:13 #
The 1976-84 Canon AE-1 is a historically significant SLR, both because it was the first microprocessor-equipped SLR and because of its sales: backed by a major advertising campaign, the AE-1 sold over 5.7 million units, which made it an unprecedented success in the SLR market. The camera and sales gave Canon the confidence to bet the company in the late 80s in their EOS revolution. The rest, they say, is history.
Dec 25, 2021 20:03:16 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
The lettering is just light enough to be unsure, but I'd say an AE-1. Canon had a few other chrome and black models in the 70s with a similar shape.
The only other body in the Canon museum with the same external features appearance is the AT-1, a variant of the AE-1. It's not one of the others.
Dec 25, 2021 20:45:07 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
The 1976-84 Canon AE-1 is a historically significant SLR, both because it was the first microprocessor-equipped SLR and because of its sales: backed by a major advertising campaign, the AE-1 sold over 5.7 million units, which made it an unprecedented success in the SLR market. The camera and sales gave Canon the confidence to bet the company in the late 80s in their EOS revolution. The rest, they say, is history.
Agreed. They sold so many because they were selling HOPE. Hope that the user would never have to endure thinking about scene lighting and contrast and exposure and aperture and shutter and... (again).
I watched way too many kids wander around yearbook workshops making all the wrong exposures for their scenes. It wasn't JUST the AE-1 camera, though. Most of the early automatic exposure bodies got misused. People stopped reading manuals, not that they read them much before, but if you did, you had a fighting chance of understanding that auto exposure was not a panacea. 20% of the time, you really had to THINK and adjust. If you want results in marginal situations, you have to understand the variables, and how to manipulate them, and WHY. The automation revolution threw oil and BBs in the path of that process.
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