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Post by Rachel on Sept 6, 2005 8:02:53 GMT -5
I found this Canonet 28 in a Cash Converters shop. The matching Canolite D flash was bought on eBay.  |
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Post by kamera on Sept 6, 2005 9:55:35 GMT -5
Looks like a really nice find there!!
I have two Canonet 17 GIII's, one of which is a beaut and I use; the other is more in case I need parts sometime. Also have the Canonlite D flash and it remains quite good...at least for fill flash. Rarely do I do indoor shooting anyway.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by Randy on Sept 6, 2005 18:07:16 GMT -5
Nice camera Rachel, I've got one of those also. Is a cash converter shop the same thing as a pawn shop?
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Post by Rachel on Sept 13, 2005 13:49:02 GMT -5
Is a cash converter shop the same thing as a pawn shop? Yes Randy, the modern equivalent of a pawn shop. I always have a quick look when I pass but they usually have nothing of interest to me. |
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Post by PeterW on Sept 13, 2005 17:00:48 GMT -5
That looks in very nice condition, Rachel.
Despite being a Canon fan I don't have any examples of the later compact Canonets. The only two I've got are the older, larger ones from the 1960s.
I have a special affection for one of these. It's the camera with which my son John. now 35, took a picture when he was eight years old that won first prize in the under-16-years-old section of a national competition run by Amateur Photographer.
John later took a degree in photography and worked for a time in a London advertising studio and as a freelance magazine photographer, but when he got married he decided that the income as a freelance wasn't steady enough so he changed career to computers and is now a computer engineer with Siemens-Fujitsu. He's still a keen photographer and says he enjoys taking pictures for his own interest more than commissioned shoots.
John's youngest son Luke, now four, is already showing a healthy interest in photography and loves to come into my den to look at 'Grandad's Cameras'. He's taken a few snaps of which he's very proud with a little point and shoot but hasn't quite got the idea yet of framing what he wants to take in the viewfinder. Never mind, he's making a start. None of my other five grandchildren show any interest in photography.
Peter
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Post by Randy on Sept 13, 2005 19:01:31 GMT -5
Talk about Pawn Shops...in 1983 I went shopping for a new Minolta XG1n. The prices of new ones were too prohibitive for me. I had all but given up on getting one when one day I decided to go into a Pawn Shop just to see what they had being that I had never been to a Pawn Shop before. I did a double take when I saw a brand new Minolta XG1n in a display case with a 50mm lens both in the original boxes. Knowing this was too good to be true, I asked just for the heck of it why there was a new camera for sale. The Pawn Broker told me that it was just pawned in January and that the person had said it was a Christmas present but that he didn't know what to do with it. I asked what he wanted for it...and he said "give me eighty bucks and I'll throw in a tripod!". I didn't give him time to change his mind to be sure! I guess I was destined to own an XG1n, eh?
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Post by heath on Oct 13, 2005 4:05:32 GMT -5
I have a Canonet QL25 that I bought at a local camera fair a few months ago. Original price on it was $90 AUD but he let me take it off his hands for $30 AUD. Not bad if I may say so myself. It is very clean and works great for it's age.
Heath
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Post by kiev4a on Oct 13, 2005 17:04:11 GMT -5
It's a different story where I live. Most pawn shops won't take film cameras and the one who do want absurd prices for them -- a Petri flex 7 for $89 (at least I consider that absurd by ebay standards) How about a banged up Argus C3 for $50?
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Post by unclebill on Nov 17, 2005 20:19:18 GMT -5
Good call on the Canonet, I have a QL17 GIII that I affectionatly name the little camera with the big name. I am still blown away at how nice the optics are.
Bill
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Nov 18, 2005 7:41:24 GMT -5
Where I live we have a Value Village but they're ridiculously high in their prices. Cameras are in their showcase under lock and key. The Miranda Senserex EE they have right now with 50mm, 35mm, a Vivitar TX zoom, flash and a few filters is marked $199.00 Can. I paid $50 for mine several years back and less than $25 US for my last Sensorex thru Goodwill.com. (before bidding there went insane too).
Here I frequent Cash Converters (just bought my latest MTL5 there for $25 Can. , 2 Salvation Army stores, St. Vincent de Paul thrift store, as well as three pawn shops. Only 1 pawn shop has much these days. I bought my last 135mm f3.5 Pentax Takumar there.
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Post by Rachel on Nov 21, 2005 9:21:58 GMT -5
Yes, many of the modern "pawn" shops seem to have very little idea of the value of cameras but I have noticed some charity shops selling on eBay. Cash Converters always seem to have a few cameras but it's mainly modern stuff. You can find the odd gem though. A friend who had connections with one of the charity shops said that they had an "expert" to filter out the good stuff which wouldn't end up in the shop for general sale. I've never seen any photographic equipment in our local Salvation Army shop. Sadly our local Jessops no longer seem to display secondhand film cameras but London Camera Exchange have a small selection inside the shop.
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Post by mickeyobe on Nov 21, 2005 10:22:41 GMT -5
Rachel,
I too have a Canonet 28 courtesy of ebay. It works beautufully.
I also have a Canonet QL17 (no letters or numbers after the QL17). It looks new but I don't know if it works as I am unable to find a suitable battery. It is considerably larger and heavier than its cousin, the 28.
I regularly (about once per month) visit a Salvation Army store and a very large antique mall. Occasionally I get lucky, but not often.
Mickey
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Post by PeterW on Nov 22, 2005 18:48:37 GMT -5
Hi all, Canonets galore! Back in September in this thread I wrote that I hadn't got any of the smaller Canonets. Well now I've got two! One is the more usual Canonet rangefinder and the other is a slightly larger earlier model with no rangefinder, a big selenium cell round the lens and a socket for a flashcube on top. It focuses by turning the front lens cell. I read on the Canon museum site that the old one was based on a previous model, the Canonet Junior, and the RF one was called the New Canonet 28 when it first came out. I got both of them very cheaply because neither was working. The rangefinder model wasn't because an old battery was stuck in the socket by corrosion. A few drips of white vinegar left to soak in got it free. I washed out the vinegar with isoproplyl alcohol and cleaned up the contacts with switch cleaner and a cotton bud, (Q tip). It's supposed to use a 1.3 volt mercury battery, but I haven't got any so I popped in a 1.5 volt 625 alkaline and everything works! How accurate the exposure is with the extra 0.2 volts I don't know. I'll find out when I eventually get time to try it, but I still haven't finishd the roll in the Fujica ST 605 yet, and then I've got the OM 10 to try. The earlier model had a bit more wrong with it. The bottom was badly dented just by the battery door, which wouldn't open, and the brightline frame with the needles was crooked in the viewfinder. If you give the camera slight thump it comes back into place, but the slightest jar sends it crooked again. About 10 minutes plus a little judicious panel bashing had the bottom straightened out OK, it's only soft aluminium, but I haven't yet had time to take the top off and secure the frame. It's purely automatic exposure, Canon's EE, or Electric Eye, system with no provision for setting shutter speeds manually. In the viewfinder one needle at the bottom shows the shutter speed chosen by the EE system, and another needle at the side shows three 'distance symbols' so you can zone focus without taking the camera from your eye. When the frame settles in a level position the needles seem to work OK, so I assume the selenium and the trapped needle linkage are OK, but I'm not going to try to use it till I've fixed the frame in case the linkage bends. According to the label inside it takes two AAA size alkaline batteries which are used just for powering the flash but as I haven't got any flash cubes I haven't bothered to put any in. All in all it's been quite a good month for collecting, and we've still got a week to go  . Peter |
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Post by Rachel on Nov 23, 2005 8:42:40 GMT -5
I also have a Canonet QL17 (no letters or numbers after the QL17). It looks new but I don't know if it works as I am unable to find a suitable battery. Mickey, according to my Canonet Focal Guide your QL17 needs a Mallory RM-1R battery. Although you can't get the 1.3v mercury battery now, a modern equivalent seems to be the 1.5v LR50 or PX-1. |
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