In 1976, when Canon introduced its AE-1, it started a revolution – not on the streets, but in camera manufacturing. It was the very first camera to be built with a microprocessor at its heart and thus forever changed how cameras were designed.
On the outside, the Canon AE-1 was a really nice camera to handle, fairly light with good ergonomics, and it proved to be a very reliable piece of kit. But on the inside, it was radically different from any camera ever made.
