Sir, your work in researching, providing context and explaining not just the camera/device but also the world/time conditions in which it was developed are exemplary! I really enjoy your videos and the work you put into them is obviously a labor of love. My inheritance from my father was an AE-1 and a pocket watch. I still have that camera in a special spot of my collection. It began my love for photography and even more for collecting cameras. Thank you for a proper review of this important part of our heritage.
I still have my AE1 Program, bought by my parents in Hong Kong in 1984, when they gifted it to me, with a Rare Breech lock 28mm F2.0 ad the classic Tamron 80/210 Zoom I still own it and it works perfectly. I must say it is a better camera in all respect to the original. The only function it really lacked was Aperture Priority but, back then, even professional lenses were so bad, wide open, that I was always trying to shoot at F/5.6. Focussing screens were interchangeable ad I got a grid reference one in the nineties for some Architectural work. Nowadays I own several film cameras, including Nikon F2, F4, F90, OM1n, and even Topcon, but it is always the Canon that falls in my hand, being extremely comfortable and straightforward to use.
Thanks for sharing your great experience with AE-1 Program. Please consider watching our videos on Nikon F2, F4 and OM1. It would be good to hear your experience of those cameras too.
The AE-1 was my entry into the world or photography when I was 17. I eventually got an A-1 and loved it - almost always a perfect exposure. I have a lot of great memories, but shoot Nikon today. A for the vote.
Sir, your work in researching, providing context and explaining not just the camera/device but also the world/time conditions in which it was developed are exemplary! I really enjoy your videos and the work you put into them is obviously a labor of love. My inheritance from my father was an AE-1 and a pocket watch. I still have that camera in a special spot of my collection. It began my love for photography and even more for collecting cameras. Thank you for a proper review of this important part of our heritage.
Thank you for your positive comments. Yes, indeed it is a labor of love, to properly document the technology heritage.
I still have my AE1 Program, bought by my parents in Hong Kong in 1984, when they gifted it to me, with a Rare Breech lock 28mm F2.0 ad the classic Tamron 80/210 Zoom
I still own it and it works perfectly. I must say it is a better camera in all respect to the original. The only function it really lacked was Aperture Priority but, back then, even professional lenses were so bad, wide open, that I was always trying to shoot at F/5.6. Focussing screens were interchangeable ad I got a grid reference one in the nineties for some Architectural work.
Nowadays I own several film cameras, including Nikon F2, F4, F90, OM1n, and even Topcon, but it is always the Canon that falls in my hand, being extremely comfortable and straightforward to use.
Thanks for sharing your great experience with AE-1 Program. Please consider watching our videos on Nikon F2, F4 and OM1. It would be good to hear your experience of those cameras too.
These videos are excellent.
Glad you like them!
The AE-1 was my entry into the world or photography when I was 17. I eventually got an A-1 and loved it - almost always a perfect exposure. I have a lot of great memories, but shoot Nikon today. A for the vote.
We also have a video on the A-1. Perhaps you can compare that review with the AE-1.
Great review. I have an AE-1 that I got from my late uncle. It still works great.
Good to hear! Hopefully this video will prompt you to use it even more.
Considering it only operates (properly) at 'auto', you may as well just buy the much cheaper Nikon EM. Great review as always, thanks for posting.
Very true!
And how do I fit my Canon lenses, to a Nikon, EM?
@@Stephen.C. Obviously you don't, you use Nikon lenses.
@@sputumtube So saying I may as well get a Nikon is untrue. You would have been better saying, may as well get a Canon AV1
@@Stephen.C. Alright Stephen - whatever you say.