Borrowed a Camera (Canon A-1) in the Beaches

I never had much love for the Canon AE-1, I learned on it, but never had any nostalgia for that particular camera body. For me the AE-1 was ok. Now recently I had an opportunity to try out the A-1 a few weeks ago and it's a different beast altogether. 

Canon made the A-1 from 1978-85 slotting it between the (New) F-1 pro body and the consumer AE-1 appealing to advanced amateurs with program mode, aperture, and shutter priorty and if you really wanted to take control, manual mode. Now granted Canon being Canon called their modes AV and TV which carries forward into their EOS mount bodies. If anything the A-1 is a harbinger of things to come in camera technology. like later Nikon AF-D lenses, you have lock the aperture ring on A with FD lenses. and control the lens from the camera with a front control wheel. By sticking with a  horizontal cloth shutter and embracing plastic construction, Canon wanted to out feature and under price the competing Nikon FE.

The only competing camera was the more robust Minolta XD-11 (XD in Asia and XD-7 in the EU) that had both aperture and shutter priority. A very different camera and has shared legacy with the Leica R series of camera between the R4 and R7. 

I had fun shooting with John Meadows' Canon A-1, I bought one off Ebay, and should be here as of this post's publishing. 


Camera: Canon A-1, FDn 50 f1.4 lens. 

Film: Fujifilm 400. 



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