Canon Canonet 28

Anders — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:54:00 -0400

For various reasons, among which was the need for a “lab rat” for camera repairs and the flawed awesomeness of the movie Pecker, I got myself a Canonet 28.

It’s much like my fancier Canonet QL17 GIII, but without the manual control, the great lens and basically everything else that is good. The only thing the 28 still provides is a decent automatic mode, which also works with flash.

So far I’ve used it for practicing a small camera “repair”, i.e. cleaning the viewfinder. It took around 30 minutes to take it apart and clean it, excluding the time to find suitable tools for opening it (pliers and a rubber glove(!)). The same operation then took just 15 minutes on the QL17.

Because of the automatic exposure the 28 is dependent on a working light meter. There is some small glitch in the circuits somewhere in it, so the meter doesn’t always work. Without fixing that it’s not reliable enough to use, but maybe I’ll be able to solve that too one of these days.

A View From Above: Canon Canonet 28

Canon Canonet 28