After hunting around for quite a while now, I have acquired this Canon AE-1 35mm film camera with a 50mm f1.4 lens.

These cameras were manufactured between 1976 and 1984, and I was lucky enough to get this one in excellent condition.

A fact made quasi-astounding when you see the state of the case it arrived in (below).

I’m just waiting for a new battery to arrive (the E in AE stands for electronic – it was one of the first cameras with electronic exposure wizardry), and fingers crossed the old girl will fire up just like it’s 1980 again.

Make no mistake, film photography makes no sense. The film stock is expensive, as is the developing cost, you can’t see the photo you just took for ages….and at the end of the whole process you have a digital photo anyway.

But it’s a thing.
And I’m excited to explore the nonsensical-ness of it all.