To: longtimecanonperson
Your mention of the Konica Autoreflex brings a tear to my eye. I had a T3 that I bought around 1973-74. It was heavy and a bit loud, but it was the best all-around SLR that I have ever seen. In fact one of the photography mags of the time called it "the best 35mm SLR camera in the world." I carried that thing all over the world with me in many and various conditions without a problem whatsoever. It was built like a tank including a full metal shutter, not a so-called metallized rubber shutter mechanism as in other major brands. I will continue to miss the whole line of Konica cameras.
Still using my two k1000s. They've been bounced around horseback, fallen down a cliff (attached to me!), gotten rained on and had more than their share of Texas dust blown into them. I'll keep 'em as long as film exists!
Gentlemen (or Ladies) you're both wrong. The first camera to feature shutter priority auto exposure was the original Konica AutoReflex. Also several point 'n shoot 35's also featured shutter priority, including the first Nikon Action Touch foul weather camera. Nearly all used what is call the "trap needle system," where by the shutter button locked the meter needled against an "anvil" which told the lens which aperture to engage. Most of these early autoexposure SLRs had an extra tall shutter release, since the power to operate it came from the finger of the photographer. The most elaborate shutter priority camera was the Canon EF, the one and only AF camera of the F series. The AE-1 however, was the first auto-exposure camera to use a computer chip to perform the automatic functions. Canon's sticking with shutter priority may seem odd, given that most auto exposure SLR's used aperture priority. However, it enable them to market the A-1, the very first program exposure SLR.
Sony was the least impacted from what I have read. So if you need a new consumer camera, consider a Sony. They are coming out with new models this year or get one of the award winning Alpha or NEX cameras on close out.
Sony bodies use any of the Minolta AF, Konica Minolta, or Alpha mount lenses. Oh, also a line of Zeiss lenses too.
As to the Leica R series, the bodies may be reasonable, but wait until you price the lenses!
Not only is shotgun1a correct, but the Minolta XD-11 even went further than the Canon AE -1 earlier. It offered BOTH aperture priority AND shutter priority and manual, and since it self adjusted just before the shutter opened, it could be said to have been the first program camera. The same is true for the XD-5, released essentially at the same time, with a few less and quite unimportant features. Probably the most under-rated cameras of now and of the period are the Minoltas. Take a look at the ratings on PhotographyReview, for instance. I'm not saying that the Canon AE-1 is not a good camera. It is excellent. Its sales beat the dickens out of Minolta. However, for the sake of accuracy . . . .
This is incorrect. The AE-1 was not the first camera with shutter-priority auto-exposure mode. That honor goes to the Minolta XD-11.
The picture is a GA645Zi that with a zoom lens. There is also GA645w with a wilder lens.
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To: longtimecanonperson
Your mention of the Konica Autoreflex brings a tear to my eye. I had a T3 that I bought around 1973-74. It was heavy and a bit loud, but it was the best all-around SLR that I have ever seen. In fact one of the photography mags of the time called it "the best 35mm SLR camera in the world." I carried that thing all over the world with me in many and various conditions without a problem whatsoever. It was built like a tank including a full metal shutter, not a so-called metallized rubber shutter mechanism as in other major brands. I will continue to miss the whole line of Konica cameras.
Still using my two k1000s. They've been bounced around horseback, fallen down a cliff (attached to me!), gotten rained on and had more than their share of Texas dust blown into them. I'll keep 'em as long as film exists!
Gentlemen (or Ladies) you're both wrong. The first camera to feature shutter priority auto exposure was the original Konica AutoReflex. Also several point 'n shoot 35's also featured shutter priority, including the first Nikon Action Touch foul weather camera. Nearly all used what is call the "trap needle system," where by the shutter button locked the meter needled against an "anvil" which told the lens which aperture to engage. Most of these early autoexposure SLRs had an extra tall shutter release, since the power to operate it came from the finger of the photographer. The most elaborate shutter priority camera was the Canon EF, the one and only AF camera of the F series. The AE-1 however, was the first auto-exposure camera to use a computer chip to perform the automatic functions. Canon's sticking with shutter priority may seem odd, given that most auto exposure SLR's used aperture priority. However, it enable them to market the A-1, the very first program exposure SLR.
Sony was the least impacted from what I have read. So if you need a new consumer camera, consider a Sony. They are coming out with new models this year or get one of the award winning Alpha or NEX cameras on close out.
Sony bodies use any of the Minolta AF, Konica Minolta, or Alpha mount lenses. Oh, also a line of Zeiss lenses too.
As to the Leica R series, the bodies may be reasonable, but wait until you price the lenses!
Not only is shotgun1a correct, but the Minolta XD-11 even went further than the Canon AE -1 earlier. It offered BOTH aperture priority AND shutter priority and manual, and since it self adjusted just before the shutter opened, it could be said to have been the first program camera. The same is true for the XD-5, released essentially at the same time, with a few less and quite unimportant features. Probably the most under-rated cameras of now and of the period are the Minoltas. Take a look at the ratings on PhotographyReview, for instance. I'm not saying that the Canon AE-1 is not a good camera. It is excellent. Its sales beat the dickens out of Minolta. However, for the sake of accuracy . . . .
This is incorrect. The AE-1 was not the first camera with shutter-priority auto-exposure mode. That honor goes to the Minolta XD-11.
The picture is a GA645Zi that with a zoom lens. There is also GA645w with a wilder lens.