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Canon Canonet 35mm Rangefinder Film Camera w/ 45mm f/1.9 Lens Made In JAPAN
Canon Canonet 35mm Rangefinder Film Camera w/ 45mm f/1.9 Lens Made In JAPAN
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Canon Canonet 35mm Rangefinder Film Camera w/ 45mm f/1.9 Lens Made In JAPAN. Condition is Used. Sent with Australia Post Standard Large Box/Satchel.
Has some scratching and engraving on body of camera (please look at photos) but in good working order.Description
- Produced 1961 Canon Camera Co., Japan
- Film type 135 (35mm)
- Picture size 24mm x 36mm
- Weight 700g
- Lens Canon 45mm 1:1.9 (5 elements in 4 groups)
- Focal range .8m to infinity
- Filter size 55mm
- Shutter Copal SLV
- Shutter speeds B, 1-1/500 automatic or manual, T ring
- Viewfinder coupled rangefinder with parallax correction
- Exposure meter lens mounted Selenium with viewfinder needle (aperture)
- Auto EV range 5-7 at ISO 100
- ASA range 10-200 (400 on later models)
- Battery none
- Accessory shoe
- Fast-action bottom-mounted wind lever
Overview
The camera that launched a thousand ships, or at least caused a rush on Canon Company stock at the time of its release. The original Canonet, here as imported through their American distributor at the time, Bell & Howell, was Canon’s first foray into the mid-class consumer market with some impressive features: a very fast 1.9 lens, EE shutter-priority autoexposure or full manual operation, and a price tag consumers could sink their teeth into.*
Tips & Tricks
To open the back you have to simultaneously press a lever and a button underneath the camera, which is also where you’ll find the rewind knob AND the collapsing wind lever. This is the same style wind lever you’ll find on some old Ricoh rangefinders like the 500, Five-one-nine, and Ricohmatic. It’s actually a delight to use, you get to use one hand for winding and another for shooting, you can actually shoot much more quickly that way.
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