• Canon Ae 1 Program
• Canon Ae 1 Original Price

Ok, I know how to find 'when' a particular Canon camera was produced (inside code in film chamber) but I would like to how many were produced; specifically the A-1, the AE-1 and AE-1 Program. Researching tonight, these are my educated guesses:2,430,000 A-1s produced from April of 1978 to 19855,730,000 AE-1s produced from 1976 to 1984AE-1 Program, nothing found to indicate production numbers.I'm not saying any of these numbers are right. And for all we know there is no definitive production list. This discussion all started over a cup of coffee, looking at friends cameras and probably having too much time on our hands at the moment! But still I'm curious.

The Canon AE-1 is a 35mm film SLR camera with shutter-priority automatic exposure and manual override, produced by Canon in Japan and produced between 1976-1984. Canon AE-1 Program This is Photography. Press the black button by the rewind crank and serial number. In a few years, the EOS 650 will take Canon's. Canon Ae 1 Serial Number Year Identification. Apple's Mac OS X 1. Lion operating system also made the. Generation- n.

I have three Canon A-1s, one is 2410990. I'm guessing that there weren't many A-1s made before production ended in 1985. Ben, Jim: thanks for your replies and yes, I reckon we'll never know. I doubt Canon would have information after 35 plus years.

Canon now is actually a different corporation than what produced those cameras then and they might not have any numbers now (not really a different company but sort of). I'm sure there were separate tallies for the AE 1 and AE 1 program unlike what was suggested among my cronies at the book store.

I find it hard to believe one of my copies is the last one made even if it's rather high at 2410990 just based on the build number inside the film chamber. I won't lose sleep (or miss out on a photo op) but I will keep checking as I can.

Canon Ae 1 Program

To be continued. Interesting how the changeover from the mechanical F-bodies to the electronic A-bodies completely reversed the sales trends.The mechanical match needle FTb & FTbn vastly outsold the mechanical (except for the slow shutter speeds) auto-exposure EF, but the exact opposite was true for the A-series.The auto exposure AE-1 sold about 8 times as many as the match needle AT-1.

Canon Ae 1 Original Price

Yes, the EF was quite expensive back then, and yes it devoured batteries - especially if left on, but such a complete reversal was the ushering in of a new age in 35mm SLR where AE started to rule the day.What info i have shows nearly 1.8 million FTbs (both models) vs. About 320,000 EFs. A-series is over 5.7 million AE-1s vs. 450,000 to maybe a little more than 1/2 million AT-1s.