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Correction: Boston used to be a place known for thousands of hot college girls having wild sex all the time. I am married now so that rate is but a small fraction of what it once was.
I’m as strong as an ox!
Granted, it would be a relatively small ox, but an ox nonetheless!
The Canon AE-1 wasn’t so much a break throug in consumer photographic technolgy as much as it was a marketing coup…
Take it’s features, for instance. It had semi automatic exposure control, an auto winder, and a dedicated flash. Was it the first to have that mix of features? No. The Nikon EL-2 had them. And the Nikkormat EL-W before that. The automation of the exposure was aperture priority in the Nikon products as opposed to shutter speed priority in the Canon, but that’s not really an issue. They both qualified fior that era as being “automatic.”
How about the dedicated flash? Canon didn’t really do anything special there, either. All that changed was that the flash now set the camera to synch speed and set the predetermined aperture when charged up. It was still the same as setting any “auto” flash on any camera and making sure the settings of the flash were translated to the camera. It was a convenience, not real automation. Nikon and Canon both already had a “focus distance sets the aperture” system available for several years based on a mechanical gearing. Minolta had developed an “off the film plane” light measuring system (first used under liscence by Olympus) that was truly revolutionary. Canon’s recent EOS EF system is a perfect hybrid of both earlier ideas.
And the auto winder motorised advance? Again, severla cameras, the aforementiond Nikon EL-2 , Nikkormat EL-W, Topcon Super-D and RE Super, Miranda DX-3, Olympus OM-1 and OM-2, and even the Leica R3mot all had low cost, light weight motorised advance that could be (and some were) touted as an auto winder instead of the heavy, cosly, loud faster motor drives.
No, what set the Canon AE-1 apart as the first modern, mass market, popular, automatic 35mm SLR system for the average consumer was Canon’s virtually perfect ad campaign. “So advanced, it’s simple!” That, and the fact that the AE-1 system could be had for less than $300 while the other cameras listed started at that price (or higher) for the camera alone, and one can easily see why the Canon AE-1 started a boom in popular photography not seen since the original Kodak and has yet to quit, since morphing into fully automatic and digital.
Thank you Canon, for the Big Bang of popular photography for the masses and it’s First Cause, The Canon AE-1.
But to even get to that point **NoClueBoy[/B}, don’t you think it would help if you got some seriously needed background information on the subject?
With the slogan “you press the button, we do the rest,” George Eastman put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers in 1888. In so doing, he made a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone.
Since that time, the Eastman Kodak Company has led the way with an abundance of new products and processes to make photography simpler, more useful and more enjoyable. In fact, today’s Kodak is known not only for photography, but also for images used in a variety of leisure, medical, business, entertainment and scientific applications. Its reach increasingly involves “infoimaging.” Infoimaging is the use of technology to combine images and information–creating the potential to profoundly change how people and businesses communicate.
Just as Eastman had a goal to make photography “as convenient as the pencil,” Kodak continues to expand the ways images touch people’s daily lives. The company ranks as a premier multinational corporation, with a brand recognized in virtually every country around the world.
On the pages that follow, you’ll learn more about George Eastman’s remarkable accomplishments and about the company that today is bringing new dimensions to his legacy.
I worked on my Ph.D. in neuroscience, the study of the brain, for a while at Dartmouth before I got into a fight with my advisor and walked out one day. Dartmouth is a beautiful school. I liked the fact that Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Suess) went there too even though he graduated in 1925 and that was the year that my grandparents were born. You heard right. All of my grandparents were born in the same year. How many people can say that?
Anyway, my daughter has lots of Dr. Seuss books and we like to read them together. You wouldn’t figure that it would take an Ivy League education to write books with those few words but I guess it did. Dr. Seuss still sells more books with his dead little pinkie each week than most writers do in their lifetimes.
My point is that we both have sort of a similar academic heritage yet he wrote stupid little books and made gazillions and is adored throughout the world while I am stuck in some lifeless cube doing consulting crap and I don’t think even my co-workers like me all that much.
How fair is that?
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BTW, if you live on the water up north, be ready for some humidity in the summer if it’s anything like Rhode Island was for me.
Ahhh, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays”.
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I can’t believe how much I have to translate.
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I always thought that it was strange that Rhode Island
named itself after a chicken. . MOst states use a person or an Indian word or something. What’s up with that.
I can believe how much I DON’T have to translate. Being monolingual and associating only with people, places, and things in your own language is a remarkably effective solution for that one. If everyone did this then we could just throw out all those “dictionaries”, “electronic translators”, and “Babelfish” to make room for something actually useful. If God wanted people using something other than English, he would have written the Bible in another language.
This was done only once, in the 1960’s. And for 20 minutes.
Talking about the bible, we, in holland, eat mashed carrots, potatoes and onions and call it ‘hutspot’. On our plate, we make a hole in the hutspot and fill it with gravy.
Did you see that cat do a back flip?
Ah! I see that my friend, the spider, has been to you’re wetlands recently. Exellent news! The delivery should be recieved in the morning.
