Excuse us, while we pee our pants. Oh. My. God. The above is a 1981 Canon AE-1 Program SLR that was originally designed to use film, but one creative hacker has turned the iconic analog camera into a digital shooter.
The AE-1 Program Digital, as the hacker is calling it, features a 9 megapixel sensor, image stabilizer, and 4 gigs of internal memory. The guys over at CrunchGear think a Canon Powershot SD870 was sacrificed for the mod.
We've always thought the original AE-1 Program was a beautiful camera. It's nice to see it repurposed for the digital age. We definitely wouldn't mind displaying this on our desk.
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Comments (4)
wow I finally found the reason why I was holding onto my AE-1
@funstraw if you figure out how to do this, you have to share!
It's all speculation, but if you go over to dpreview some people are saying that it was an April Fools joke that is still going around.
It looks however that someone might of just put a point and shoot inside of an AE-1 shell. You can't use your AE-1 as you did with film, no interchangeable lenses, no off camera flash sync. bummer.
Sorry, I don`t see any sense in it. From what I see, it`s just a gutted AE-1 Program with a digicam stuffed inside. If someone made that Canon digital retaining all its functionality, that would be something. But that? Barely useful, crippled thing, a cult classic SLR spoiled with a mediocre digicam feel. Waste of a good camera...