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Canon Canonet 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there!<\/p>\n<p>This is a nice rangefinder, I have one, will post photos soon, here some facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canon&#8217;s first consumer rangefinder<\/li>\n<li>$119.50 with f1.9 lens in 1961 ($871 in 2010 dollars)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Canonet was Canon&#8217;s first mid-priced camera, a shutter-priority auto-exposure 35mm rangefinder with the meter around the lens, so it automatically compensated for filters.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting from Canon&#8217;s own Camera Museum website: &#8220;The camera industry went into an uproar upon learning that Canon, maker of high-end cameras, was to introduce a mid-class 35mm camera with a fast f\/1.9 lens for less than 20,000 yen [$56]. However, the Canonet safely went to market in January 1961. A week&#8217;s worth of stock was sold out in only two hours. It was the start of the Canonet boom. Two and a half years later, a million Canonets were sold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the coming years Canon would improve the Canonet, and ultimately become successful with mid-priced SLRs, too. This was just as well, as Canon had no pro SLR to go up against Nikon&#8217;s F. Nikon, for its part, didn&#8217;t have a mid-priced auto rangefinder in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cesardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CANONCANONET1961.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4353 [ftmt_id]\" title=\"CANON CANONET 1961\" src=\"https:\/\/cesardphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CANONCANONET1961.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"589\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there! This is a nice rangefinder, I have one, will post photos soon, here some facts: Canon&#8217;s first consumer rangefinder $119.50 with f1.9 lens in 1961 ($871 in 2010 dollars) The Canonet was Canon&#8217;s first mid-priced camera, a shutter-priority auto-exposure 35mm rangefinder with the meter around the lens, so it automatically compensated for filters. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cesardphoto.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/classic-cameras-friday-canon-canonet-1961\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Classic Cameras Friday! 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