Greatest thing of all time? It’s at least in the running. Some very dedicated Canon lover (and DIYer) has put the guts from a modern Canon digital into the a hollowed-out AE-1, one of the wonderful old metal bodies from the early 80s. I learned to shoot on its elder sibling, the FTb, and I still love to just hold it my hands as a reminder of how things were once built. If only I could have both… like this thing.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsRQIxyOzw&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
It seems that pretty much all the dials have been replaced with the digital ones (otherwise you wouldn’t be able to operate the camera), and there’s a d-pad looking rather out of place on the back. I love that the film advance, wind, and ASA knobs are still there. I mean, why take them off? Woah, and take a look at that lens, what the hell?! 10mm F/1.4 pancake? WANT.
The video says it has 9 megapixels, but what model he might have cannibalized to create this thing isn’t coming to mind. Some point and shoot from around two years back, I’d guess… but from the d-pad styling it doesn’t look like a G-series (update: Looks like a Powershot SD870 or something like it).
This thing is cool as hell and I want it so bad. More pictures over at the DP Review forums.
[via Canon Rumors]
