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One Camera, One Lens Exercise, Canon Rangefinder Edition

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 I had to go downtown back in April to handle some lingering business with mom's estate with the bank, I packed one camera, one lens combo, this time around the Canon 7 with the Canon LTM 36 F1.8 lens. A nice combination for shooting south of St. Clair. For those who can't swing the Leica M mount system, I highly recommend taking a long hard look at the Canon rangefinder system. Some ways the bodies were nicer then Leica M mounts with titanium shutters and an ease of loading like an SLR as opposed to going through the bottom like Leica.  The Canon Leica Thread Mount (M39) 35 F1.8 is a fun little lens. It pre-dates the LTM 35 F2 lens from the 1960s so it pre dates the 7 rangefinder and is a companion to the P and the VT Deluxe, but I'm a user of the Canon rangefinder system and nowhere an expert, while I have a copy of Canon Rangefinder Cameras 1933-1968 by Peter Dechert it's about the cameras much less about the lenses.  With this roll I also wanted to try Eastman Doubl...
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Back from the Repair Tech, and A Day Trip to Fergus On.

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Asahi Pentax Spotmatics, I have a soft spot for. I picked up a Spotmatic SP after my brother suggested I get one, they were dirt cheap (at the time) and the Super Multi Coated Takumar glass was something else. About six months later I picked up a Spotmatic F from the Henry's Clearance Outlet. It was the used camera department manager's personal camera.  I shot a lot of film off and on over the years, replaced a light meter (same part as a the one in a later K1000) Fast forward to about early pandemic times, the mirror was starting to seize up, the camera needed servicing. Which I got to finally a few years later.  The Spotmatic F was the last mechanical M42 screw mount in Asahi Pentax's line, there's the ES and ES which were aperture priority bodies but they were different animals, even if they cosmetially looked the same. I dropped the camera off at Halton Camera Exchange in Georgetown at the end of the ski season and it took a few weeks for the camera to work it's...
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