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The 'Canonet' was the first popularly priced camera with which Canon Camera Co., Japan appeared on the market in 1961. Until then Canon only built very expensive High-end class rangefinder cameras. When Canon showed the 'Canonet' to the public at Photokina in January 1961, the entire initial stock had already been sold in the first two hours after opening and after two and a half years, the millionth Canonet was already sold. The 'Canonet' quickly grew into a successful series of compact rangefinder cameras with the 'Canonet QL17 G-III' as the absolute top. The 'Canonet' is a very well-built rangefinder camera with a fast 1.9 / 45 mm lens and automatic exposure control with shutter speed priority. The most striking detail is the 'Trigger-Winder' placed at the bottom of the camera. However, Canon appears to have abandoned this method of shutter tensioning and film transport from 'Ricoh', who already applied that system to its '500 series' cameras in 1956.
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