Today, I broke a Canonet.

[erikhaugsby]

I was off shopping for film today and ran into a nice little Canonet QL17GIII that I saw a few weeks ago but wrote off due to lack of funds.

The price tag said $70, so I started to run the camera through checks of the focus, shutter, aperature, etc. I was completely sold on it--I'd never handled a Canonet before this one. It was absoutely beautiful, even next to my M2.

As I was chatting with a few of the counter guys (self confessed Leica geeks they are) I was mindlessly advancing/tripping the shutter to test all the speeds. And then the shutter stuck. The aperature moved, the advance advanced, the mechanism tripped, but the damn shutter blades wouldn't move.

I feel so rotten inside.

[ChrisPlatt]

You would have felt even worse if it had happened after you bought it!
Maybe they'll give you a good deal on it as-is...


Chris

[Wayne R. Scott]

Originally Posted by ChrisPlatt

You would have felt even worse if it had happened after you bought it!
Maybe they'll give you a good deal on it as-is...


Chris

Yeah, I hate it when that happens.

Wayne

[pesphoto]

Since you broke it did they make you buy it?

[Xmas]

If they put it back in a show case the green house may flow the lube and clear the fault, show cases can cook cameras.

Lots of my cams work ok, in the summer, but die in the winter, replacing the glue with PTFE liq to address.

Noel