Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right you are...It was really an SP camera, not an AE, despite Canon hanging that name on it....And how could I have been off by four years? Good God! So it really only took Leica 26 years, not, as I inferred, 30 years, to come up with essentially the same degree of "automation" Canon introduced to its line in...1976.;-) B. D. And then there was the Canon A1 - a wonderful machine, introduced when, Joseph? I don't recall the year but I do know that I bought one to use along with my original F1 body, and I believe I recall that it had Shutter Priority, ApPriority, Manual, and full Auto - right? :-) I also know that I sold mine to an editor colleague at Newsday in the mid-1980s, and when last he and I spoke, around 1998 or so, it was still going strong. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Joseph Yao Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 1:51 PM To: Leica User Group Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 at a Bris on 8/5/02 9:52 pm, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > All the M7 is doing is what the Canon AE1 did in, what , 1972 ? - pick the > shutter speed appropriate for the f stop you've chosen. The Canon AE-1 was launched in April, 1976. Being a shutter-priority AE camera, it picked the appropriate aperture for the shutter speed set by the user. Joseph - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html