Tell me you’re not looking at this and saying, “WANT.”
I really have a minor obsession with the thin line between analog and digital technologies. I think there’s a certain aesthetic beauty in the past, and the functional way of doing things the old fashioned way. But digital efficiency and manipulation are truly wonders of the 21st century, and everything in between is the shift, fleeting and fragile forms of innovation that flicker for a brief second of astounding marvel.
Okay, enough lyrical waxing. What we see is the actual body of a 1981 Canon AE-1, a full metal SLR back in the eighties. Now, I don’t profess to know a lot about photography or film, but I can appreciate the mechanical precision and chemical magic of photography from that era, in fact I still think the Nikon FM-2 is one of the most iconic cameras of all time!
The guts however, come from what many people believe to be a Canon Powershot SD870. It’s cool, but this doesn’t have the same technology as a digital SLR nor is it micro four thirds camera like the Olympus PEN EP-1. However, that does not stop it from being awesome, simply because he did it himself!
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