A new Canonet !

fredus

fredus

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Hi there,

I'm the new proud owner of a Canonet, picked up on Ebay. Some first obeservations:

- Very nice finish and construction
- Clear viewfinder
- Little disapointment for the patch. Sometime it makes it hard to focus. Maybe I was expected Leica kind of patch
- Extremly quiet shutter !
- A little surprised by the rewind mechanism. Basically, I can rewind between shot. I have to look at the little window to see if it's red or white to verify if the shutter is armed or not. This is a little different ... But I should get use to it pretty fast.

I'll develop the first roll tonight and will post some picture. Hopefully, they'll be good !

Fred
 
Welcome to the world of Canonets. The wind mechanism should lock so you can't double wind. This is a fairly common fault. If you search the threads, there was a fix just recently so I won't repeat it. You will have to lift the leatherette which on a Canonet is a real ******.

Kim

fredus said:
Hi there,

- A little surprised by the rewind mechanism. Basically, I can rewind between shot. I have to look at the little window to see if it's red or white to verify if the shutter is armed or not. This is a little different ... But I should get use to it pretty fast.

Fred
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I knew there was something wrong 🙂 Oh well, it doesn't really matter since you have the window which is a good indicator. But I'll look into that fix anyway ...

Thanks !

Fred
 
Thanks for the pictures ! That will come handy !!

One thing I've noticed today that I didn't notice yesterday. When I'm on the 'A' setting, the aperture change when I turn the focusing ring ! Looks like it think that I have a flash on the hot shoe (I've read that if you're using a flash, the aperture will ajust based on your focusing distance ... But in that case, I don't have a flash !!) .. I took perfect picture yesterday on 'A' but didn't notice the behavior ... What's happening ?

Fred
 
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