Over christmas my mother emerged from her room with two lovely Canon Canonet rangefinders. (The original ones) I've never used a rangefinder before, so this was all new to me and it was quite exciting. I shot my first roll of out of date Fuji Superia over the weekend and have just had it developed.
I have some questions!!!
1. Does the original Canonet have a battery? If so, how do I replace it. One camera seems to function, the other is unresponsive.
2. How does the aperture scale in the viewfinder work? When I have it on auto mode, the needle moves, but it changes its position depending on how far I depress the shutter button. It's very annoying!
3. One the lens, there are a few things I can't figure out. Firstly, how do you change between the 'sunny/cloudy/indoor' setting, and secondly, what does the lever beside the 'sunny/cloudy/indoor' icon do? It doesn't appear to be mentioned in the manual and it doesn't seem to move. I don't want to force it for fear of damaging the camera.
Thanks in advance to any kindly souls who can give me any pointers.
You'll need to specify which models you have, Canonet was a model line rather than a specific model and the interface varies a fair bit between models.
FM users are heavily digital oriented, so you may not have the biggest pool of knowledgeable manual/film RF users here. I'd ask these questions in the classic-manual camera forum at photo.net or in the Canon rangefinder forum at rangefinderforum.com.
