After looking around, I changed direction and decided to get a camera I always wanted—the legendary Canon F-1. In my searches I found two kinds of F-1’s: cheap junk and expensive pristine models, especially the Lake Placid version that I always wanted since that was the closest I got to photographing the Winter Games. (It’s a long, sad story.) So I started looking for AE1’s and found one in Osaka, Japan.

Cameras with mechanical shutters use an electrical contact within the shutter, which closes the circuit at the appropriate moment in the opening process. Some people just call it “flash sync”and, as I unfortunately found out, it’s different for every camera