Original Canonet RF Adjustment

[kvanderlaag]

I just received a Canonet from Mike Stoesz (fantastic guy!) and it's all peachy-keen after a little Ronsonol, but somewhere along the lines, the RF got bumped out of alignment vertically. It seems to be dead on horizontally, but it's a little out vertically, and it makes it hard to focus. Does anyone know how to adjust the vert on the RF of this camera?

 

[Kim Coxon]

It's a bit late over here. I will scan the relevant pages of the repair manual with diagrams tomorrow morning and post them.

Kim

 

[kvanderlaag]

Thanks, Kim! I appreciate it.

 

[kvanderlaag]

Why yes, it is!

 

[kvanderlaag]

And the little Canonet gets a second chance at life thanks to Gman!

Thanks!

 

[wyk_penguin]

The horizontal adjustment is in quite a dangerous place....
A slip of the screwdriver and you could say goodbye to the beamsplitter.....

 

[kvanderlaag]

Err, I may have spoken too soon. Now it appears that when I opened it up, I messed something up around the shutter release -- it works fine when the aperture is manually set, but when it's locked to auto, it will always stop down to about f/8, and the shutter won't fire, usually.

...help?