Joe Farace

There’s at least one reason why there’s a McDonald’s on every street corner in America and not a Ruth’s Chris Steak House: And that’s because Ray Kroc and maybe the McDonald brothers too wanted to sell lots of hamburgers to lots of buyers.

The AL-1 was Canon’s first attempt into autofocus and while far from being true AF, the AL-1 featured what Canon called QF focus-assist  (Quick Focus) system for focus confirmation. It used phase detection linear CCD arrays and in the viewfinder, red arrows indicated the direction to turn the lens to achieve sharp focus.

All modern cameras have some kind of built-in light meter and many even have spot meters but I still occasionally use a hand-held meter, especially when photographing people outdoors.