Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Shutter durability
From: Nick Hunter <nhunter1@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:36:21 -0400 (EDT)

Mike Johnston wrote:

>The Nikon F4 shutter, for instance was designed to last for
>150,000 cycles--I was told that by Nikon engineers. Surely that isn't _worse_
>than the durability of the F and F2, is it???

Somewhere I heard that the original F was designed for a million cycles!
That spec has been falling with each model.

Mike-great to have you back, and glad you are now able to write subject
headers!

Nick Hunter