Hi Donald, Have only recently sold the last of my three A-1 bodies & lenses - I've shot with them for almost 20yrs & regard them very highly. I bought an EOS film body about 8 yrs ago but for most things I preferred shooting with the old A-1's. I've been shooting just about everything on the Canon D60 digital for the past year so finally parted with the A-1's & a host of FD manual focus lenses (it still feels odd to adjust apertures with the wheel on the back of the camera!). There's nothing 'digital' that I know of that will work with the A-1 (altho' at one stage I was holding my breath for that infamous 'digital film insert' device). The change of body design from FD lens mount to EF lens mount also meant a change of lots of accessory plug types, etc. I'm surprised at the high price you quoted from ebay - they tend too sell for about that price in New Zealand dollars here (about half US price), but good examples don't come up too often (you could try http://www.progear.co.nz ). I'd be a bit weary of ongoing repairs - I kept 3 because of this - but never actually had any problems.
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