Canon7 without self timer lever

[mretina]

I recently picked up a pretty rugged and cheap Canon 7 with 50mm 2.8 lens and without self-timer lever, i.e. not missing just not present. Anyone aware of such version?

 

[Mackinaw]

So there's nothing at all on the camera body suggesting it once had the self-timer lever? No hole, depression, anything? I'm gathering leather covers the entire front panel of the camera where the lever would normally be?

It'd be great if you could include a picture or two.

Jim B.

 

[mretina]

actually looking better it is all covered by the leather but a small circle can be seen or rather imagined under the leather where the lever should be. This model was black-painted and I assume it might have been releathered then. The black paint has almost entirely come off and it is a chrome model obviously. Mystery solved. Any reason why the selftimer might have been removed? Kind of tempted of black painting it again....

 

[agour]

the self timer lever might have been faulty, so rather than fix it they just removed it.

or they might have just preferred the look of it without the lever

 

[DanOnRoute66]

Do the film advance and shutter work? Sometimes if the timer was set when the lever was removed, it will jam up the film advance and shutter from working properly.

 

[mretina]

It does work. Actually one of the reasons I picked it up (besides the 50mm 2.8 lens that is hard to come by) is that the shutter had no wrinkles. I will shortly shoot a roll. Nice camera. I have a Bessa R, a Fed II and a Leica M2 but this has a nice modern feeling to it. I like that you can see what frameline is in the viewfinder. Not sure if the meter really works and it is probably easier to expose manually anyway. Just a bit heavy. Canon RF are in general very hard to come by in Europe but I start to really get interested in them also thanks to all the info you can find in this section of the forum.