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Canon AE-1 vs Pentax 6×7 / 67

Every spec below is quoted from the makers' official pages — where a figure isn't published we say so rather than guess. Sizes are drawn at true relative scale from published dimensions, and the bag-fit row is computed against our measured bag catalog.

The 3 biggest published differences

Weight (body): the AE-1 leads at 590 g vs the Pentax 6x7's 1760 g.
Type: AE-1 has 35mm SLR; Pentax 6x7 has Medium-format SLR.
Format: AE-1 has 35mm; Pentax 6x7 has 120 (6×7).

	AE-1 Canon FD	Pentax 6x7 Pentax 6x7 mount
Overview
Type	35mm SLR	Medium-format SLR
Format	35mm	120 (6×7)
Lens mount	Canon FD	Pentax smc67 bayonet mount (internal and external bayonets)
Released	1976-1984	1969–1989 (original 6×7, pre-"67" rename)
Film camera
Film format	35mm	120 (6×7)
Metering	Shutter-priority TTL CdS metering	none built-in (optional TTL metering pentaprism finder)
Shutter	Electronically controlled, horizontal-travel cloth focal-plane	Mechanical horizontal cloth focal-plane shutter
Shutter speeds	2 to 1/1000 sec plus B	1 sec – 1/1000 sec, X-sync 1/30 sec
Battery	1x 4LR44 / 4SR44 6V	none required for the mechanical shutter itself (4x LR44/SR44 or 1x 4SR44 battery only needed if the optional TTL metering finder is fitted)
Body & Handling
Dimensions (W×H×D)	141 × 87 × 48 mm	177 × 152 × 91 mm
Weight (body)	590 g	1760 g
Weather sealing	—, not published	—, not published
Shutter durability	—, not published	—, not published
Price
Launch price	—, not published	—, not published
Size, to scale
Front view, drawn at the same scale from each maker's published W×H (mm).
Smallest bag that fits
Body	Think Tank Mirrorless Mover 20 V2 Fits body only · View at B&H Photo Video	WANDRD Essential Camera Cube (for PRVKE 21) Fits body only · View at WANDRD

Sources

official · AE-1 specifications: Canon Camera Museum (official manufacturer spec page) · accessed 2026-07-10

“141 x 87 x 48 mm, 590 g (Dimensions & Weight)”

official · Pentax 6x7 specifications: Photoethnography.com Classic Camera DB, "Technical Details" table (secondary compilation citing period technical specs, NOT a directly-sighted original Pentax manual page — the original manual PDFs at butkus.org/cameramanuals.org are scanned images with no extractable/OCR'd text, so this could not be independently verified against the primary document) · accessed 2026-07-10

“Dimensions and weight: 177x101x91mm 1.29kg w/o finder; 177x152x91mm 1.76kg w/ TTL finder [row for "6x7" model, 1969]”

Pentax 6x7 dimensions carry medium confidence (archived-source caveat on its fit page).

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Spec values are the manufacturers' published figures, compared factually — we don't rank cameras. Fit verdicts are planning estimates from published interior dimensions, not guarantees. See methodology.

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