{"id":11681,"date":"2014-08-21T19:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=11681"},"modified":"2014-08-21T19:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:16:48","slug":"canon-a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=11681","title":{"rendered":"Canon A1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Only One letter separates the Canon AE-1 from the A-1 but they are worlds apart.\u00a0 The A-1 has many more ways to control the exposure from aperture priority and program mode to exposure compensation.\u00a0 The A-1 indicates both aperture and shutter speed in the viewfinder while the AE-1 requires looking at the shutter dial on the top of the camera to confirm its setting.\u00a0\u00a0 I can go on so I will.\u00a0 The A-1 has a multi-exposure setting and two self timer modes.\u00a0 When I was much younger I had a Canon AE-1 program but I sold it in order to buy a printer.\u00a0 The printer is long gone and I suspect the camera is still taking pictures somewhere.\u00a0 Since then I was always hoping to get another one but the A-1 has cured me of that. It is the one and only Canon SLR I need from that era.\u00a0\u00a0Since the time I first wrote this post I have traded my AE-1 away for an Olympus\u00a0SP35\u00a0Rangefinder truly making this my only Canon SLR from this time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t