The Canonet QL17 GIII is a perfect non-changeable lens, metered rangefinder and it's shutter is a quite as the Minolta Autocord "E", non metered TLR.
Deals can be had if you look around carefully.
I don't want to use M39 lenses, and I want a small, inexpensive camera -- which I now have.
He wants to use lenses using an adapter. Specifically very wide angle lenses.
Which is why I mentioned the fixed lens feature of the Canonet, just in case he does no find a m39 camera that he likes.
However, 19 and 17mm lenses are not "very" wide on half-frame.
The Canonet QL17 GIII is a perfect non-changeable lens, metered rangefinder and it's shutter is a quite as the Minolta Autocord "E", non metered TLR.
Deals can be had if you look around carefully.
Some of us don't happen to have a bullet to bite.
You don't consider an 84° picture angle "very wide angle"? What half frame camera has the equivalent of a 24mm on a full frame camera??
Post a WTB ad asking for free Leica lenses. The thread will be a smash hit.
The picture angle of my Tamron 17mm is 104° with a full-frame 35mm camera. On a half-frame it is 84°
I have a couple of Canon Canonet QL17 GIII cameras. In fact, I wrote an article about it that was published in Camera Shopper back in the '90s:
www.subclub.org/minman/leanmean.pdf
It's a great camera with a super lens, but it's large and heavy with a fixed lens. I want something light with interchangeable lenses -- and I found it.
I just did the drawing in CAD software to check it out myself.Interesting. Why does it calculate to 63 degrees diagonal for 17x24? (It calculates to 104 degrees diagonal on 36x24)
A lens with 104 degrees diagonal angle gives roughly 83.18 degrees diagonal angle on 18x24.
A lens with 104 degrees diagonal angle gives roughly 82.05 degrees diagonal angle on 17x24, which is marginally smaller.
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