Fresh from Sunday night’s purchase from Bob Wood (mercantile47 on eBay), this really clean Canonet QL17 GIII arrived in today’s post. His pictures are really beautiful – the camera looks just like its photos. In real life, the camera appears to have been well treated, seems to work perfectly, and is totally confusing! A manual camera? Setting up film, f stops, shutter speeds? Add to that getting to understand how a rangefinder lens works and actually having the visual acuity to see it? Yeah, it really is a mind tweaker. I get digital really well, but this is an altogether new kettle of fish. I am really eager to see my first roll of film, which I expect will be total crap because I am lost, there could be light leaks, there will definitely be user errors.
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