HE WHO DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS WINS!

self | June 19, 2012 | swampsniper

[SWAMPSNIPER]

This little beauty, along with a nice bag of goodies, came as a gift.

I'm going to start learning to sleep standing in a corner, I'm running out of space for a bed.

Canon AE-1 Program, 1981

[doc1019]

NICE!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

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[Pharmboy]

Do electric trains count?

[familyop]

Analog’s good and versatile. Thinking about getting a battery for my old Nikon.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Yeah, but I sure don’t have room for any trains in here!

[bobo1]

Shucks, I had to get in my chest cuz’ I thought your canon was the same as mine.

mine’s an AV-1. takes good pictures, tho. 35mm.

Have a blessed day

Blessings, Bobo

[Islander7]

Oh man! I had that same setup many years ago. What an awesome camera the AE1 Program is!! Still a solid performer 40 years after it was introduced.

PS: I have not been able to find the Minolta flash I promised you. Have no idea what happened to it. Sorry.

[ConorMacNessa]

That's an excellent camera! Does it use that quaint medium we know as film or is it digital? I have an array of old cameras, a couple from the 30's, a Pentax Spotmatic, my first SLR and an array of other devices. Now I tend to use my phone to take pictures more than anything else. It's better than any of the cameras I own.



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[Yorlik803]

My brother had one just like it. It was the first real camera he bought. He loved Canons.
He has some Hasselblads{spelling,damn}. But that AE1 is the most cherished thing he got.

[Norm Lenhart]

Speaking of ‘analog’, If I get you another old Cannon AE, will you get me an old Fairchild 670 Compressor (Audio)? Heck of a deal! ;)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It's 35mm. I shoot a lot of digital but I really love the old SLRs. I started out to collect Minolta stuff, then a Pentax sneaked in, and since then it's out of control.

I try to keep everything working but still end up with some junkers.

This Canon is pristine, needed a tiny drop of lube but nothing else.

[TonyInOhio]

I used a T-1 in high school for yearbook pictures and envied the upperclassmen who were assigned the AE-1 in the school’s inventory. :) I have an F-1 around here somewhere.

[Tijeras_Slim]

This has your name written all over it.

[Forty-Niner]

He who dies with the most toys is just that.....dead!

[mamelukesabre]

Wait a sec...

That’s one a them old fashioned FILM cameras! I threw mine out cuz they told me no one makes film anymore. What am I missing?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Plenty of film around, just ordered some.

[Cyber Liberty]

Wow! Can you get the 100 exposure backlid? My photo club had one, and that extended roll was great on Prom night....

[mamelukesabre]

really

what about developing it? who does the developing? I heard there’s no more kodak film and no one left around to do the developing and the EPA won’t let you sell chemicals anymore.

I had a yashica with a built in light meter. No auto. tons of lenses. All screw in type...not bayonette. I had all the developing equipment. My dad even made his own emulsion. He had a one gallon jug of pure mercury...still half full.

[shibumi]

My wife is an avid Photographer. I have bought her three state of the art cameras, one top of the line Pentax DSLR, a Canon point-and-shoot and a Nikon DSLR with auto zoom.

Despite the heavy artillery, she still takes the old Pentax SLR film camera on vacation, and invariably shoots 8 - 10 rolls in a week to ten days. (That’s in addition to all the shots with the new stuff.)

She gets some really great shots with the old film camera.