Canon P variations?

[delac027]

I noticed while looking through some pictures of P's that they all had white shutter speed numbers and i realized my P had green numbers from 60-1000. Any reason why this is so?

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Shutter speed dial fungus... VERY rare indeed! 🙂

 

[ZorkiKat]

There was a time when camera makers colour-coded their shutter dials to indicate either flash synch ranges, or at least to mark off which shutter speeds ran with non-full opening curtains. The Canon P sync's at about 1/40 or 1/50 (the X mark on the dial) so this means that starting at 1/125, the shutter blinds will traverse at about half-width slit.

Contax did this too, and so did Praktica and hosts of other makers.

 

[Mablo]

Never seen that before. Previously I thought that the only variation (except those rare black beauties of course) would be the colour of the back door disc. One of my P's has a black and white disc while the other has a coloured disc.

 

[Bill58]

The colored ones are worth a small fortune! Joke.

 

[Red Robin]

Hi there, Right now I own three canon P's. The s/n's are nice spread . The oldest has some small differences, larger vf rings on front, dial on back is bk/silver,color on the newer versions They all work the same.