Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:01 PM 11/19/1999 -0800, Eric Welch wrote: > >Now maybe what happened is that the complex shutter mechanism This is one of the mythic "urban legends" of photography but, if the truth be told, the Contax' shutter is not that much more complex than the LTM camera's, and is certainly a lot more rugged. The myth of Contax shutter problems has come about from two sources. First, most smaller shops no longer will repair Contax cameras -- but, what the hey, they won't repair LTM cameras, either. Second, the design uses shutter tapes which tend to deteriorate with time. Take a LTM and Contax camera, put 'em in the attic or garage for thirty years, and, yes, the LTM camera is much more likely to be working than the Contax. (So, the discoverer takes the Contax to his local camera shop, where the repair guy says, with horror, "I don't work on those".) So, the discoverer of this fine camera, in frustration, E-mails Eric in disgust, "these !@#$% Contax shutters aren't worth a +_)(*", and, since we all know Eric, a myth of epic proportion is born. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!