Camera has no View Finder Lever
- No Model designation on Body
- Maximum Shutter speed 1/500th
- Has a Slow Speed Dial
- Has no View Finder Lever
Model | Date | Model | Date | Model | Date | ||
Canon JS | Apr 1945 | Canon S I | Dec 1945 | Canon S II | Oct 1946 | ||
Canon VL2 | Jan 58 |
Fifth Question:
Does the Camera have a Rangefinder?
At first this question seems a little odd. Of course it has a rangefinder. All cameras have rangefinders, right? Well, actually, no. Modern cameras do have but there was a time when older cameras did not. If they were able to focus at all, it was by selecting the distance on some form of scale. Then for a period in the late 40’s and early 50’s it was a cost sutting measure to create cheaper models.
Canon manufactered a couple of cameras without rangefinder. These are easy to spot. They have only one rectangular window for viewing the scene. This is a viewfinder only camera. The extra round windows are for the rangefinder image.
This Canon camera has a rangefinder. The indication of this is the second round window on the top front of the camera.