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You just prompted me to Wikipedia the AE-1 (my father had one). Apparently it was made for eight years. Hard to imagine one model of camera on the high end of
by dded 13y ago
You just prompted me to Wikipedia the AE-1 (my father had one). Apparently it was made for eight years. Hard to imagine one model of camera on the high end of consumer market being made for 8 years today. Camera technology was amazingly stable till about the mid 80s, when uprocessors coupled with sensors started driving rapid progress in AE, AF, and of course eventually digital imaging.
- WalterBright 13y agoThe AE-1 really hit the sweet spot of design vs cost at the time. I used it for 25 years, finally replacing it with an Elf because the Elf fit in my pocket and took far better pictures than the Minox (but I still dusted off the AE-1 for the quality pix). The Elf lasted about 5 years before I bought a digital camera, and that was the end of film for me.