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Canon A-1 : Specifications and Opinions

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The Canon A-1 is a reflex camera that uses film (non-digital) manufactured from 1978 to 1985 (discontinued). It does not have a continuos shooting mode.

19 users have given it an average vote of 9.4 out of 10

Esposure
Shutter speeds	30" - 1/1000
Exp. modes
Metering modes
Features
Stabilization	No
Continuos shooting	FPS
Pre-Burst	No
Live View	No
MLU/SS	No
Video mode
WiFi	No
GPS	No
USB Charging	No
Camera body and built
Viewfinder	Optical, coverage %, x
Flash	No
Battery
Weather sealing	No
Weight	620 g
Dimensions	141 x 92 x 48 mm
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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Google Translate.

Pfju

sent on July 23, 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 September 10, 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 October 12, 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 June 23, 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 June 22, 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 !!!!

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