vbarniev
Established
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Produced 1965 Canon Camera Co., JapanFilm type 135 (35mm)Picture size 24mm x 36mmWeight 24.2oz (686.1g)Lens Carl Zeiss 45mm 1:1.9Focal range .8m to infinityFilter size 55mmShutter Copal SVShutter speeds B, 1-1/500 automatic or manualViewfinder coupled rangefinderExposure meter lens mounted CdS with viewfinder needle (aperture)Auto EV range 2.5-19 at ISO 100ASA range 25-800Battery 1.3v mercury (RM1 1st model, 625PX second model)Canon Quick Load (QL) film loading systemAccessory shoe, PC syncFast-action wind lever
Tom hicks
Well-known
I just bought one today2-28-09 at a resale shop for $10.29 and they also had a Yashica G for the same price , the canon is like new , with case and the battery was even working , the Yashica was just as clean except the front of the lens where a filter would screw on had put dented it . But we can fix that. No Carl Zeiss lens .
julio1fer
Well-known
According to the Canon site, the original lens is a Canon lens. I believe they are right on this issue. I am also pretty sure that it is not easy at all to change the lens in a Canonet, any model.
Did you handle the camera and looked at the lens yourself, or do you have a picture of it showing the Carl Zeiss brand on the lens?
And this quote,
Is this a text in an auction, or does it come from an authorized source? Could you give us the source of the quoted text, so we may take a look ourselves?
Excuse my insistence, but a Canonet with a Carl Zeiss lens would be a real curiosity!
Did you handle the camera and looked at the lens yourself, or do you have a picture of it showing the Carl Zeiss brand on the lens?
And this quote,
Is this a text in an auction, or does it come from an authorized source? Could you give us the source of the quoted text, so we may take a look ourselves?
Excuse my insistence, but a Canonet with a Carl Zeiss lens would be a real curiosity!
FrankS
Registered User
A replaced lens identification ring is the most likely possibility. As Julio said, these are fixed lens cameras and the shutter is built into the lens. It would be a heck of a job to switch lenses; it's probably impossible to do so because of the shutter and aperture and their links to the camera body. On these cameras it is quite a job simply to get at the shutter blades to remove oil which frequently causes these Canonet shutters to stick.
Merkin
For the Weekend
could you be reading the markings on a zeiss filter that is screwed on to the front of the lens?
vbarniev
Established
I don't think so...ha
