AE-1 Styled DSLR from Canon?

[c.d.embrey]

Arrrgh! Retro? Call me a forward looking evolution/revolution tart, but I like new stuff. The often subtle changes that bring better design and ergonomics/useability and so on, are my tech tool turn ons. Just so long as the changes will deliver options for me to take better pictures.

It's not how cool I look taking snaps at my local cafe with a "statement" camera, it's the magic in the images that I come back with that count for me.

Whether it be cameras, cars, kettles or toasters, in my possibly narrow zeitgeist, Retro happens at a point where industrial designers have run out of ideas.

-pw

I agree completely! I was born before WWII, I lived through the Bad-Old-Days. Been there done that, don't need to do it again

As pwp said, it's not about looking cool. I like simple to use cameras that don't get in my way of making the best shot. A camera. like a toaster, is just an appliance ... not a fashion statement or a religious fetish.

 

[Ebrahim Saadawi]

I have absolutely no problem with making a camera decision based on how it looks. I choose my cars based on how they look, my clothy phones, my watches, my shoes, my glasses, my furniture, everything really. Practicality is imppertant but so is looks and design. I love cameras, my passion, I have in the ballpark of a hundred cameras, way too many but I am fascinated by that invention.

I would love any company including Canon to make a retro-shaped camera that looks genuinely beautiful, I would be interesting in that. I also understand that other people don't care at all about how theor camera looks, it's fine, it's personal needs and preferences.

 

[NancyP]

Why? I HAVE an AE-1 sitting in the closet, along with its radioactive 50mm f/1.8 prime. (Truth: it was my Mom's camera, I would be using my own old-timey M42-mount Mamiya-Sekor DTL 1000 and its stable of lenses (60mm f/2.8 preset 1:1 macro, complete with hexagonal bokeh!) if I were to shoot 135 film again).

If I wanted retro, I would go for real retro: shoot 4 x 5 film.