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Pfju

sent on 23 Luglio 2019

Pros: Excellent electronics, milestone in its field, ergonomic, fast with its motor drive, full optional.

Cons: Need to know the various functions, study of the mandatory manual.

Opinion: A machine that looked like a spaceship, for the time, my first reflex, my mother bought it when I was 12 years old, without a goal, for that I had to wait a month, given the finances of the house, otherwise I would have to fall back on an AE1 Program, but I did not, expected a month for the 50th 1.8. The camera was a standard reference of electronics applied to an SRL. Bright sight with led in red, automatic time priority, diaphragm, scheduled AE, manual, AE stopped down and AE flash, with CAT system, Canon Auto Tuning. The only one in the world, at the time, that could exhibit to 12800 ASA. Ergonomic and pleasant to the grip, it had the action grip, removable, equal to that of the AE1 Program, could be equipped with the ma motor drive and reach the gust of 5 fps, with battery magazine MA, with 16 stylus stacks. The competition, at the time, took out the Nikon FA and the Pentax Super A, but the A1 remained up there, a star. My first photos in Rome, in Villa Borghese, I met a couple of foreigners, he was 50 years old ca., I 12, we had around the neck the A1 both, he looked at me and said, for me it is a great car but for you, child, and raised his arms to the sky , he was right. I'm sorry to be biased, but for me, it remains the most beautiful camera in the world.

Jacopo Maffei

sent on 10 Settembre 2018

Pros: Weight, manageability (with action), ease of use, quality construction.

Cons: Nothing for his time

Opinion: I state that starting to photograph with the analogue has represented for me a real gym of life (you have only 36 shots and not thousands, you have to think if it is worth to take that picture and how we intend to achieve it... who took film knows well what I'm talking about). That said was my first reflex (my father had bought it in the far 1979 and used until the early two thousand) that I never get tired of using it despite the digital. The A 1 is a true concentrate of technology in a body built with a very unique detail and care (as already reported by others before me) that I especially match the 28mm f/2.8 for the street with which gives (in my opinion) the best of itself giving you some shots Exceptionz Nationals.

Mauro Gamberini

sent on 12 Ottobre 2016

Pros: All

Cons: Nothing

Opinion: E 'it was (were, I had 2) my first car * automatic *. Before Canon EF / FTB. Equipped with motor (5 photos per second at the time were not for everyone ....) have accompanied me until the advent of T90. Planes and cars, but also portraits, landscapes and ceremonies. * Called them my little sisters * Also in the articles corredavo with clicks of those wonderful, expensive machines. If I have to find fault, the flash sync at 1/60, deadly take pictures at night to rally, impossible to eliminate the trail of lights ... but it was a common evil to all Canon Series A. Fine heavy, but I used also paired with a bracket, with a give and with the B & W or color. Colleagues * * nikonisti with their FM2 envied the burst speed of the A1. A great exposure, working in dia with Kodachrome 25/64, those who used them knows what I write, more than the PP now with digital, taking photos, and ended there. I'd still have one, but when I switched to EOS1 (always with film) and EF, I held a FTB with 20 f2.8 /35 f2 / 50 f1.4 / f2.8 135 FD kit. All things that I have not used any more, just occasionally resent the clang * * mechanic FTB. rnMa * * my little sisters, that longing ....

Alepucciprato

sent on 23 Giugno 2016

Pros: Electronics, robustness, ergonomics

Cons: Display

Opinion: It was my first camera and I still carry with me every now and then. With this Canon I took some of the best photos of my life traveling around the world was a perfect and reliable companion. The display is not too useful because it does not set the aperture set but they are details. For the period have an electronic body at this level was fiction. Too bad that today's digital cameras are not born with the same care and research of the era.

LucaV72

sent on 22 Giugno 2016

Pros: high-level electronic (especially for the time). Reliability'. Robustness. Feeling (still and 'spectacular, use)

Cons: Use in difficult manual does not bear the viewfinder aperture set (it indicates that suggested).

Opinion: I own the A-1 for about twenty years, bought used in the middle '90s after gaining experience of my father (he also owned one, I buy' when it had just come out). A spectacular car, with all the automatic Av, Tv, Manual, exposure compensation in 1/3 increments. I used it with a lot of satisfaction until a few years ago when the mirror started to be slow in the pull (SOLVED - see update at end). rnL'unica thing I never liked and 'how' was designed function Manual: The machine, in fact, does not report targeted the selected aperture (lens), but only indicates what they would choose her. This forces you to take your eye from the viewfinder to make sure that you choose the aperture you set. But definitely it not 'born to be used in manual, as demonstrated by the fact that it was one of very few cars of the time to have both the functions Av and Tv.rnA aside the problem of the mirror (SOLVED - see update at the end) and the electronic shutter still work very well. Amazing considering it has more 'than 30 anni.rnrnUPDATE 06/25/2016: After you shoot it in hand for this review I came back the urge to see her work, so' I did some research on the net. I saw him slow mirror and 'a very common problem of this reflex and you can' solve even with the "do it yourself." I followed this tutorial clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XYX7AF2yto and with immense joy the mirror and 'born again !!!!

Daniele Ruggeri D2

sent on 21 Maggio 2014

Pros: It's a reflex Mechanics (with commands controlled by rings), very rugged, charming, built with metallic and non-plasticky.

Cons: Heavy, un-ergonomic (though it's nice just to his own style)

Opinion: I bought it second-hand after having a canon eos 1000d digital for a while '. RnMi seemed at once fantastic, I managed to get a good roll from the first, do not miss a beat, and the quality of the images seemed even higher than those of the 1000d improved to pc.rnDispone modes av, tv and M of moderne.rnPeccato that after some use it is locked. The problem with these cameras is that if you do not get ruined for years and there are no more spare parts even to the canon service, where I sent it because I wanted molto.rn