Canon LTM My Canon 7 is engraved "CAMEPA" on the back

[granitsky]

Just wondering if this misspelling was common or not. It's in the engraving and not just paint missing either. I can put up a picture if anyone's interested.

 

[valdas]

Just wondering if this misspelling was common or not. It's in the engraving and not just paint missing either. I can put up a picture if anyone's interested.

P in Cyrillic is pronounced R, must be Russian made engraving... Camera in Russian is "камера", so it probably explains...

 

[sevo]

Not common - indeed their quality control seems to have had an eye on engravings, more so than Leica and Zeiss, which both produced a sizeable output of mis-engraved cameras IN THEIR OWN NATIVE LANGUAGE AND ALPHABET. Most Japanese engravers in the 1960s probably could not spell the Latin alphabet at all, nonetheless there are few mis-engraved cameras and lenses from the more prestigious Japanese brands...

 

[sevo]

P in Cyrillic is pronounced R, must be Russian made engraving...

But C in Cyrillic is S, as in Samera. No, that can't be. Nor Greek (which lacks a C shaped letter).

 

[valdas]

But C in Cyrillic is S, as in Samera. No, that can't be. Nor Greek (which lacks a C shaped letter).

maybe just Freudian slip then...

 

[Bille]

This looks machine-made

 

[Dante_Stella]

They did not have CNC or laser engraving back then. These were done just like jewelry engraving. There is a pantograph by which the human user traces big letters on a pattern (like a stencil). The pantograph translates that motion through an engraving point into a much smaller space on the camera. I've seen this in Leica videos, so it's still going on. But if you miss part of the R in that process, you obviously get P. So not misspelled so much as incomplete.

Dante

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Made on a Monday, or Friday maybe.

Chris

 

[raid]

It must take crooked photos then!

 

[Scapevision]

the tail of R probably just wore out

 

[xayraa33]

That Canon 7 is worth a small fortune !

It belonged to legendary war photographer Robert Camepa.

 

[oftheherd]

That Canon 7 is worth a small fortune !

It belonged to legendary war photographer Robert Camepa.

That's the second time today I have gotten a laugh from a forum post.

Thanks.

 

[granitsky]

here's a photo

here's a photo

As you can see in the photo, it's definitely engraved that way and there was never any paint to rub off.

 

[radi(c)al_cam]

Ha!

It's a bogus, made in JARAN!

 

[valdas]

Ha!

It's a bogus, made in JARAN!

Or it is not Canon at all (should be Kanon)

 

[p.giannakis]

Actually there is quite a strong possibility that it might be a collector's item due to this mistake.

 

[Jake Mongey]

This is odd because its a late serial number too, I could imagine a mistake like this on an earlier camera but on a late one?

 

[nikon_sam]

Actually there is quite a strong possibility that it might be a collector's item due to this mistake.

I'm hoping for the same on this bottle of Snapple...

 

[Jake Mongey]

This is odd because its a late serial number too, I could imagine a mistake like this on an earlier camera but on a late one?

Disregard what I said there, wrong image i responded to.

This is actually a fairly low SN so actually it backs up the theory it could be a mistake in manufacturing that could have maybe been fixed later on

 

[granitsky]

Disregard what I said there, wrong image i responded to.

This is actually a fairly low SN so actually it backs up the theory it could be a mistake in manufacturing that could have maybe been fixed later on

Is there a serial no database? What year is this camera from? I know the range but I would like to figure out all the info I can.