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From: "Pål Jensen"
Subject: Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's
Canon was the first to market a successful aperture priority AE camera,
but both Nikon and Mamiya had working (albeit crude) versions several
years before.
????? When was that? The first Canon aperture priority camera I'm aware of
is the AV-1 from 78 or 79.
The first aperture priority camera was the Pentax ES, which incidentally
was the first slr with an electronic shutter, from 1971.
The Nikon F2s from around 1975 enabled shutter priority AE though it was
very crude and required hanging an attachment onto the viewfinder, and one
of the Mamiyas, it may have been the DTL 500 or DTL 1000 was offering
shutter preferred auto (also crude) in around 1975 or so.
This was mentioned previously in this thread.
William Robb
