This is the Canon AE-1D. No, it's not Canon's latest retro-styled DSLR. It is an old Canon film camera hollowed out and stuffed with an Ixus 870 IS. It's also the best hack I have seen this week. The ...

Greatest thing of all time? It’s at least in the running. Some very dedicated Canon lover (and DIYer) has put the guts from a modern Canon digital into the a hollowed-out AE-1, one of the wonderful ...

Canon’s long history has many firsts dotted across the company’s innovations, but one of the most striking is arguably the Canon AE-1. Introduced in 1976, the Canon AE-1 had a plastic rather than ...

I loved my Canon AE-1. I still have it somewhere. But because it uses analog film, and since I more or less gave up on shooting onto silver-halide stock in the late 1990s, it has been tucked away in a ...