Vintage Canon Model VT Leica mount Rangefinder from 1950's Extremely Rare

Vintage Canon Model VT Leica mount Rangefinder from 1950's Extremely Rare
Vintage Canon Model VT Leica mount Rangefinder from 1950's Extremely Rare
Vintage Canon Model VT Leica mount Rangefinder from 1950's Extremely Rare

Vintage Canon Model VT Leica mount Rangefinder from 1950's Extremely Rare

Vintage Canon Model VT Leica mount Rangefinder from 1950's Extremely Rare. The Canon VT is a rangefinder camera released by Canon in 1956. Until then, Canon had a history of making slightly modified Leica copies. The release of the VT showed for the first time that Canon could be a leader in 35mm rangefinder design.

Canon kept the Leica screw mount on the VT, and little else. They changed the film advance from a top-mounted knob to a bottom-mounted trigger. The tripod socket was moved to mount a trigger wind grip. They added a swing-open back making the camera easier to load than previous bottom loading Canons. The VT had a focal-plane shutter with a cloth curtain; shutter speeds were from 1s to 1/1000, plus T and B.

Available Canon lenses ranged from 25mm to 800mm, with some as fast as f/1.2. FP, M, and X flash synchronisation was supported. It had a three-position viewfinder with rotating prisms, which could be set to 35mm, 50mm and RF. In the RF setting, accessory shoe-mounted viewfinders with automatic parallax correction would be used.

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Vintage Canon Model VT Leica mount Rangefinder from 1950's Extremely Rare