Play between lens and body - is this bad?

[boesgaard]

I have just acquired a Canon Canonet QL25.

there is some play between the lens and the body. Is this common? How hard will it be to fix?


Best regards

Thomas

 

[dmr]

I have the QL17 GIII and there is a very slight amount of play in it, and others have reported the same. It seems to have no ill effect.

I haven't had it apart far enough to see what's causing it, but it doesn't seem to be getting any worse.

 

[vicmortelmans]

Same story on my QL17 GIII

 

[sf]

I had a Yashica Electro 35 GS with a slight lens wobble. No effect at all on the photos - but then I didn't perform stringent tests either.

 

[Richard C]

Play between lens and case in a Canonet is easily fixed by tightening up four screws BUT you have to take the leather off the front of the camera to access them.

 

[KoNickon]

Same situation with my Konica S3 -- I'd like to get it fixed but there's no effect on the pictures as far as I can tell.

 

[Kim Coxon]

Hi and welcome to the forum,
There shouldn't be very much play at all between the lens itself and the body. However, it is usual and common to find an element of play between The metal barrel around the lens element and the body is all the rangefinders like this. It is a function of the way they are constructed and the fact that all the controls are mounted in the outer housing that causes it.

Kim