Marketed in April 1978, the A-1 was the upper-end model in Canon’s A-series. Its electronic exposure system offered shutter-priority, aperture-priority and program automatic exposure, among other modes.
System
This is an FD-mount film camera. Its model name is A-1, which should not be shortened to AE-1 when looking for documentation.
Manual availability
A reviewed HTML manual has not yet been published here for this model.
Sources
Canon Camera Museum: A-1. Consulted 27 October 2026. This reference summarises documented features; it is not a hands-on review.