Technically no, the first camera to do these things was the Pentax Electrospotmatic which was similar to but actually a different earlier model than the ES. jco
-----Original Message----- From: Pål Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. Pål
