Hi, Actually Konica was way before Canon in shutter priority - automic aperture control. They started in the early sixities if not earlier. Their Autoreflex seiries were quite successful with reliable exposures. Wasn't it a hot debate about what was best shutter or aperture priority? Seems strange these days but I guess when cameras did not have all the features it depended on what one should do.
Cheers, Ronald P. J. Alling Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:14:35 -0800 Canon pioneered Shutter Priority Automation while Pentax was investing in aperture priority automation, pretty much contemporary IIRC. (I was selling Cameras Retail and the AE-1 was along side the ME and K2 in the display cases), The AE-1 meter was a PITA to use in manual mode, I think they used a trap needle system in their automation. Minolta beat both to punch with both in the same camera, I believe. Canon was next and I can't remember if Nikon beat Pentax or not.
