Stephen
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Post by Stephen on Jun 19, 2014 16:00:08 GMT -5
I think the now understood woes of the early Canonet where due to the late 1950's economic troubles in Japan, the early Canon's were just too expensive to continue making. The troubles closed dozens of smaller makers, fortunately Canon were big enough to weather the storm, but cost cutting became the norm, and it shows on the Canonet models, to many corners cut, and slightly flimsy body design, basically thinner metal, and more plastic. They left the lens alone, although with more modest mountings etc. Stephen.
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Post by yashica1943 on Jun 21, 2014 7:14:26 GMT -5
A second Canonet arrived today. I only paid £3.70 for this one. The rangefinder definitely is not connected to the focusing. The shutter seems to be sticky and again, one screw is missing from the top cover. But. It has a good external appearance, it came in its original box with an instruction book. Might be able to make one reasonable camera from the two.
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