New life for a Canonet

A few days ago I finished restoring a Canon Canonet QL17 GIII Rangefinder that I bought at a flea market for $10.  The easy part was replacing all the light seals that turned to black goo with age.  The hard part was fixing a stuck leaf shutter.  I had to take two precision screwdrivers, a pen and a bit of duck tape to make a spanner wrench needed to take the lens apart.  In the end, it took me a little over a week to put everything back together.  Even though I took photos of every step as I was taking the camera apart, I still kept ending up with a few extra parts.  Finally, I think on the fourth try, I got everything looking and working exactly the way it was supposed to and took the camera out for a spin.

The lab kind of screwed up and printed the roll instead of scanning it; I had to scan the paper prints, so the quality is not that great.

Canon Canonet QL17 GIII Test photo roll

Canon Canonet QL17 GIII Test photo roll

Canon Canonet QL17 GIII Test photo roll

 

Canon Canonet QL17 GIII Test photo roll

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