During the 1960s considerable advances were made in micro-electronics – notably integrated circuits or ‘microchips’ – which would eventually have far-reaching effects on the design and manufacture of ...

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 ...

The Canon AE-1 was a revolutionary 35mm SLR for the brand, allowing it to bring advanced features at a more affordable price, and it firmly put Canon on the path to the camera behemoth it is today.

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 ...

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 ...

The Canon AE-1 (Program) is by far the camera that has had the most impact on my life. Not that there's anything particularly extraordinary about this classic film SLR, aside from its affordability, ...