Canon LTM I just bought a Canon Rf....

[kzphoto]

It's really neat! Came with a 2.8cm f/3.5 W-Nikkor in pristine condition.

How do you identify the model of the camera?

Max speed of 1/1000, and it looks like it has a flash sync too.

SN 84009.

Any hot tips?

 

[xayraa33]

Any photo of the Canon camera?
Could be a IVSb

 

[gb hill]

You can look it up in the Canon Camera Museum.
http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/film/chrono_1933-1955.html

 

[zauhar]

I have a Canon 7. it IS a neat camera!

I don't have a close-up picture of if handy though.

Karen Nakamura has sections on the Canon IV, P and 7 on her site:

http://photoethnography.com/equipment.html

Randy

Randy

 

[kzphoto]

Looks like it's a Canon IVsb. Thanks gang! I'll get some photos online in a day or two.

 

[kzphoto]

Photos!!!

 

[Contarama]

Super cool!

 

[gliderbee]

that's a IVSb or IVSb2, depending on the shutter times: the "normal" times indicate a IVSB2, a series with 1/20, 1/40, 1/60 is a IVSB. I have one of each and I like them very much. One of them is quiter then my Leica IIIF, the other about equal. Great cameras. You'll have fun with it.

 

[kzphoto]

No 1/20th on this camera. 1/60, 1/40, and then on down to the 1/25 / B setting. I am amazed this camera works as well as it does. the shutter sounds seem right on with a recently repaired Rollei, and a Fuji GS690.

 

[gliderbee]

No 1/20th on this camera. 1/60, 1/40, and then on down to the 1/25 / B setting. I am amazed this camera works as well as it does. the shutter sounds seem right on with a recently repaired Rollei, and a Fuji GS690.

You're right: I typed too fast and now I both of them out of the closet:

The IVSB has 30, 40, 60, 100, 200, 500, 1000
The IVSB2 has 25, 40, 60, 100, 200, 500, 1000 and a small red dot at the base of the film wind know, on a curled ring, to set as a reminder of number of frames available on the film. I think you have a IVSB2 then.

You do know these cameras are great for double exposure ? Just turn the shutter dial counter-clockwise again when you have taken the first picture; that way, the camera is cocked again without transporting the film.

Stefan.

 

[je2a3]

....SN 84009....

Based on the SN, Peter Dechert's Canon RF book identifies it as a Canon IVS...

 

[rover]

There is a lot of over lap of serial numbers between Canon models. The IVSB is a possibility, as the IIIa.

 

[xayraa33]

A Canon IIIA had no flash sync side rail .
The OP's camera has a flash side rail so combined with the 1/1000 of a sec top shutter speed and a single piece top shutter dial make this Canon a IVSb model.

 

[rover]

You're right: I typed too fast and now I both of them out of the closet:

The IVSB has 30, 40, 60, 100, 200, 500, 1000
The IVSB2 has 25, 40, 60, 100, 200, 500, 1000 and a small red dot at the base of the film wind know, on a curled ring, to set as a reminder of number of frames available on the film. I think you have a IVSB2 then.

You do know these cameras are great for double exposure ? Just turn the shutter dial counter-clockwise again when you have taken the first picture; that way, the camera is cocked again without transporting the film.

Stefan.

Just a correction, the IVSB has the slow speeds split at 1/25 and the IVSB2 at 1/30.

 

[ferider]

Don't worry about the camera, you got a killer lens, including, apparently, an impossible to find 34.5mm filter. Quite rare these days and worth twice or more the value of the body.

 

[kzphoto]

I like the lens! It's really tiny. Are you serious about the filter? That's crazy!!
I bought the whole kit for $275!

 

[jmcd]

kzphoto: Are you serious about the filter?

What's the outside diameter of the lens in mm? A slip-on Series 5 or 6 could allow the use of filters and shade (that's what I ended up doing with my Summaron 35/3.5).