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Canonet Review – 43 Years in Preparation – By Bob Janes

By / / Rangefinders (Fixed Lens) / 10 Comments

In a way, this Canonet review has been 43 years in preparation. I was a teenager when I got into photography. I used to borrow my father’s various rangefinder cameras: fixed lens cameras with f/2.8 lenses. One was a Super Frankarette, another was a Konica C35. The Super Frankarette is a heavy German Camera, with a selenium cell meter and manual shutter speeds and apertures. The Konica is a small compact automatic with programmed exposure.

It’s Dead Jim – A Dissection of an Old Rangefinder Camera – By Bob Janes

By / / Repairs & Cleaning / 8 Comments

This article is a little different. It is very much focussed on a camera, but I’m hoping it will be of interest to photographers to give some background and understanding to the equipment they are using. This is a camera dissection of an old Canonet rangefinder. My father was an instrument maker by profession. I …

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