Canonet Repair Manual

[Kim Coxon]

At long last I have managed to get the time to scan the repair manual for the early Canonets. There is still a bit of work to do to clean up the text and images but as I have had several requests, I thought I would upload a draft to my website.

Available here is anyone needs it.

http://pentax-manuals.com/repairs/canonet repair.pdf

Kim

 

[paulfish4570]

Thanks, Kim.

 

[unixrevolution]

I have a dying Canonet in my photography gear at home. Thank you!

 

[newspaperguy]

You are a Prince, Sir!

Thanks from another tinkerer.

 

[oftheherd]

Thank you sir! I have two that are working fine. But I know they won't always.

 

[Kim Coxon]

You are welcome. Oh well just another 180 pages or so to cover the QL series, the 28 and a few others and I will have done the whole manual!!

Kim

 

[farlymac]

And I just boxed up my QL17 today to send to a friend of mine. Could've used this to figure out why the meter would cut off in manual. Oh well, I told him if there is anything about it he didn't like to send it back, and I would fix it. So maybe I'll get to use the repair manual after all. Or if I get another old Canonet. Many thanks for doing this.

PF

 

[Kim Coxon]

Hi,

The instruction manual is also on my site

There is nothing wrong with your camera. The meter only indicates in auto mode.

Kim

And I just boxed up my QL17 today to send to a friend of mine. Could've used this to figure out why the meter would cut off in manual. Oh well, I told him if there is anything about it he didn't like to send it back, and I would fix it. So maybe I'll get to use the repair manual after all. Or if I get another old Canonet. Many thanks for doing this.

PF

 

[farlymac]

Thanks Kim. I didn't get a manual for it so that came as a surprise. Doesn't really make much sense, unles it was a design feature to cut off the meter circuit when the camera was not being used. I have a nice little BEWI Piccolo meter that mounts in the accessory shoe, and from the photos I took, it aparently is still acurate. It helps that it was stored in it's leather case all these years so that the selenium cell hasn't worn out. Guess I won't be getting the camera back. But I've still got the BEWI to use on my Kodak Signet 40.

PF

 

[farlymac]

Just got a report back on the QL17 I sent to a friend of mine, and it looks like I won't be getting it back. He raved about the bright clean viewfinder (thanks to moi), and was looking forward to shooting it. Sometimes you can get lucky without a repair manual to go by, but for anything more than a good cleaning, I wouldn't tempt it. Thanks again Kim for posting the manual. I may just have to look for another QL17 to play with.

PF