xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
Why can't someone remanufacture these : http://cgi.ebay.ca/Canon-7-7S-Range...553203646QQcategoryZ29965QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
7s had a shoe though?
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over 200 bucks already! wow...
btw who is that last bidder - oneinchpitch - is he a member here? anyone know?
joe
btw who is that last bidder - oneinchpitch - is he a member here? anyone know?
joe
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
alot of money for a bent piece of metal.
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i guess they are very rare and that one looks like it's in great shape.
joe
joe
taffer
void
xayraa33 said:
either there are collectors out there, or somebody wanted a shoe on his/her 7 badly...
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wlewisiii
Guest
I have heard of very desparate users paying very silly amounts of money for it. Still, I'd think you could get one made by anyone with the metal working tools of a HVAC shop for alot less than that.
William
William
ScottS
Established
KevinCameras had one for $150 a while back. In general, there's not much point in bidding up an item on ebay higher than his prices. On the other hand, one of these went with a 7 body and 50/0.95 a few weeks ago -- $950 for the pair. The shoe adapter was basically free if you consider the lens at $700 and the body at $250.
Scott
Scott
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
Why was the Canon 7 not made with a proper shoe, like all Canon RF's, designer folly perhaps? The built-in finder lines did not cover the 28mm, 25mm & the 19mm, so you had to use that ungainly contraption, that now sells for more money than some Canon 7 bodies.
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the meter was where the shoe normally sits on the camera's top.
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
Canon could have put a shoe on the 7... and still have a meter read-out window, something they later done on the 7s.
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yep.
joe
joe
Sonnar2
Well-known
silly price for such an ugly device. Buy a "P" or "7s" when you want to use a 25mm or 19mm. Go ahead for a Bessa-R for 200 USD, you get TTL-metering for free. I have an accessory coupler at which a practical person has soldered a stopper to prevent the accessory viewfinder slides to far ahead, making it even more ugly...
But a lot cheaper as well, around 25 USD.
cheers, Frank
But a lot cheaper as well, around 25 USD.
cheers, Frank
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jlw
Rangefinder camera pedant
xayraa33 said:
Yes, it did. At the current bid price for this auction item, I'd think an accessory shoe fancier might be money ahead to buy a 7s rather than a 7 and this coupler!
CanonRFinder
Well-known
Hi,
Coming from a Canon RF collectors point of view these items don't often appear on eBay and normally they sell within the $100+ region. I myself was a bit surprised at what the final price. Peter Dechert when he interviewed the head of the designer team for the model 7, commented on the lack of accessory shoe on the camera and apparently was met by a sheepish look. Check his book on page 186. This of course was rectified when the 7s was introduced some 4 years later. I am unsure when Canon produced the Accessory Coupler for the 7 but generally they are not common considering the number of Model 7 cameras produced. There is an alternative if you want to use a flash with a PC connection and this is a small Canon adapter that fits on the bayonet mount and has an accessory shoe as well. Although the VF would be off-centre. This was used for the Canonflex cameras. Cheers PeterK
Coming from a Canon RF collectors point of view these items don't often appear on eBay and normally they sell within the $100+ region. I myself was a bit surprised at what the final price. Peter Dechert when he interviewed the head of the designer team for the model 7, commented on the lack of accessory shoe on the camera and apparently was met by a sheepish look. Check his book on page 186. This of course was rectified when the 7s was introduced some 4 years later. I am unsure when Canon produced the Accessory Coupler for the 7 but generally they are not common considering the number of Model 7 cameras produced. There is an alternative if you want to use a flash with a PC connection and this is a small Canon adapter that fits on the bayonet mount and has an accessory shoe as well. Although the VF would be off-centre. This was used for the Canonflex cameras. Cheers PeterK
ricpr
Rich
For 45 bones, you can buy a double accessory shoe at Camera Quest and mount it on the flash coupler. That would move a viewfinder towards the center of the camera and save the hassle and expense on looking for the accessory coupler. Cheaper too.