Available for only a very short while back in the day. Silky-smooth mechanical shutter, shutter-preferred automatic exposure operation, heavy-duty construction. The Canon AE-1 was introduced shortly after the EF was released. That model offered more features at a lower cost. Really, this EF has nearly the same construction feel of their flagship at the time, the all-manual F-1.
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Seth Barnett