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Jesse
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Username: Jesse
Post Number: 7
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 03:47 am: | 
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Hi
I have bought a black AE-1 in mint condition in a box that states it is an Olympic Games commemorative edition. However this is not marked on the camera itself. Were these olympic AE-1 models just the same as any other AE-1 of that time or did it have an Olympic logo or other identification? Very grateful for any help on this. |
Jan
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Username: Jan
Post Number: 22
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 08:13 am: |
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Jesse,
If memory serves me correctly, the only identifying feature of Canon's 'Olympic Games Commemorative Edition' cameras was a lens cap with an Olympic logo.
Jan |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 64
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 10:46 am: |
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As with all the A Series commemorative editions, it is only the packaging and the lens cap for the 50mm standard lens that identifies the edition. I have seen a F1 and A1 both with World Cup engraving on the top plate. However the lack of visible date coding on both the bodies and lenses, missing packaging together with a a very tall tale of how they came into the sellers possession started the warning bells ringing. |
Jesse
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Username: Jesse
Post Number: 8
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 11:12 am: |
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Hi
Thanks so much for your help with this. It's what I suspected. Regards jesse |
Bythesea
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Username: Bythesea
Post Number: 3
Registered: 01-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 03:33 pm: |
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Canon in the UK at least continually reminded us of their sponsorship links with sport, on the boxes of their low end & mid range bodies. Plenty of football & F1 color pix if memory serves correctly. So come Olympic time, their marketing dept of course went crazy. I do not know of any Olympic AE1/P versions. Old F1 was available officially in Lake Placid type; these show up on ebay all the time. New F1 I think commemorated the 84 games? And then there are the olive drab cameras. Some AE1 bodies were used by US military; again relatively common and stamped US Navy or US Airforce on the baseplate iirc. |
