Canon P

Last night we had a party at Jerome's home for Sophie's birthday, my return and Jerome's house warming. George brought along his latest toy, a 1961 Canon P rangefinder camera. Geez, it is a piece of art. Mechanical shutter, mechanical film advance. Mechanical everything. He has added a 28 mm wide-angle lens and thus a hot-shoes a 28 mm view finder on top of the camera. And until we talked about taking picture I learned that he used to take a lot of black and whites, and he was actually planning to put a roll of B&W into the camera after he finished that roll of color. I am thinking to get a rangefinder myself and take some real photos.


p.s. Jerome's home is huge. A pool table in the drawing room and a pingpong table next to the kitchen. Not to mention the huge sitting room that houses 2 three-seaters and 2 > 30" TV sets, and a separate reading room. It was a great party and I played pool and pingpong a lot along with downing half dozen of beer.