Canon LTM Canon P: Future Frankenstein???

Canon M39 M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
adamr1699

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Hello RFF!

Yesterday I picked up an awesome canon p with case, box and manual for a song. The camera has the best viewfinder I've seen in a canon RF and the speeds are all spot on. The only issue: no rewind crank.

I got the camera so cheap because the shop owner had been unable to find a replacement. At first I thought I would just hunt down a broken donor canon RF body, but then I thought about the potential for the camera. Modifying the body, finding different components; I think a Frankenstein would be an awesome project for a back-up to my M2, seeing as most of my lenses are LTM anyways.

I would love to hear anyone's ideas!

Thanks,
Adam R.
 
Make a good habit writing like everybody else in this forum. This will also encourage others reading your post and contributing an answer to it.
 
You might also check with DAG—he usually has a bunch of Canon parts. No P winders on the site, now, but email him, you never know.
http://www.dagcamera.com/store/c9/Canon_Screwmount.html

I continue to be amazed how volatile and thin-skinned people can be on this forum, and how bottomless their capacity for pointless anger. I mean, help the guy, or don't, but enough with the sneering pedantry.
 
Makes more sense to start there than with any mechanical hacking, IMO. It would be fun to simplify the finder down to 50mm frame lines, however.
 
Fixcinater said:
Makes more sense to start there than with any mechanical hacking, IMO. It would be fun to simplify the finder down to 50mm frame lines, however.
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Yeah we'll see once I get it home and take it apart. Ill have to find a nice textured paint or something.
 
VHT makes a high quality wrinkle paints. The finish looks like something you see on old mechanical calculators (or leica visoflex mirror housings). I think it would be cool to "reverse" the finish with flattish texture paint and some shiny bright real leather from a car upholstery or whatnot.
 
Alfonso B said:
VHT makes a high quality wrinkle paints. The finish looks like something you see on old mechanical calculators (or leica visoflex mirror housings). I think it would be cool to "reverse" the finish with flattish texture paint and some shiny bright real leather from a car upholstery or whatnot.
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That is a very cool idea! I bet it has a nice tack to it as well.
 
As for the camera, finding a rewind crank couldn't be too hard. As the camera is not overly large, nor made of plastic, it would be difficult to do anything drastic to it. Turning it into a half-frame is an interesting idea but to what end? Just because, I guess. Then again, half-frame doesn't interest me personally unless the camera is much smaller like the Canon Demis.

You could create a TTL metering body though. The electronics from a CV shoe mounted meter or an old Leicameter MR are small and relatively simple. It could be disassembled then "made longer" with re-soldering wires here and there. The metering cell could be placed in the film chamber pointing towards the shutter, the switch on the camera bottom or front and output scale in the VF itself. You'd have to memorize or even paint/etch a scale for the needle if you used the MR. If I had a camera to play around with in this fashion, this is what I'd do.

Good luck in your project and with your personal font-size troll! :rolleyes:

Phil Forrest
 
I found a repair manual in the internet for Canon P

I found a repair manual in the internet for Canon P

I have an immaculate one, and one that works just fine with the frame counter wrong. I have the last one for parts in case I need it. I can also repair it myself. Great camera. I have all the Canon lenses to go with it.
 
I found a repair manual in the internet for Canon P

I found a repair manual in the internet for Canon P

I have an immaculate one, and one that works just fine with the frame counter wrong. I have the last one for parts in case I need it. I can also repair it myself. Great camera. I have all the Canon lenses to go with it.


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