Paulo J Moreira
Canon 7
Yes, we got the message Leica, but we will not go away without a bang, so that it is clear that we can beat you at your own game. This seems the reasoning for the last luxury L39 rangefinder from Canon. Often called the dream lens, the Canon 50/0,95 was for 40 years the unchallanged queen of high speed 50 mm for 24 x 36. The camera is still based on th Canon P, but it is far bigger, heavier and complicated. The shutter speed sports another position for T and there is a built-in sellenium meter, coupled if you may. The viewfinder is commanded by a disc on top where you manually change the frame lines according to the lens in use and each frame is labelled. The viewfinder is not Leica M bright, but much better than anything coming from Russia. The time for these rangefinders was over, but Canon managed to sell about 130.000 units of these, largely because there was no competition anymore, except for Leica.
This is a class act camera, there isn't one single bit of plastic to be seen, the fit and finish are better than my Leica M6 TTL (ok, no great compliment, I admit!). The camera is all about the "feeling", it is heavy, gives you confidence, it is a serious tool, do something serious too, not happy snapshots.
Canon 7
Yes, we got the message Leica, but we will not go away without a bang, so that it is clear that we can beat you at your own game. This seems the reasoning for the last luxury L39 rangefinder from Canon. Often called the dream lens, the Canon 50/0,95 was for 40 years the unchallanged queen of high speed 50 mm for 24 x 36. The camera is still based on th Canon P, but it is far bigger, heavier and complicated. The shutter speed sports another position for T and there is a built-in sellenium meter, coupled if you may. The viewfinder is commanded by a disc on top where you manually change the frame lines according to the lens in use and each frame is labelled. The viewfinder is not Leica M bright, but much better than anything coming from Russia. The time for these rangefinders was over, but Canon managed to sell about 130.000 units of these, largely because there was no competition anymore, except for Leica.
This is a class act camera, there isn't one single bit of plastic to be seen, the fit and finish are better than my Leica M6 TTL (ok, no great compliment, I admit!). The camera is all about the "feeling", it is heavy, gives you confidence, it is a serious tool, do something serious too, not happy snapshots.