Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon S3 millennium
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@bayarea.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 07:55:28 -0800

>Frank Filippone wrote:
> >
> > Wasn't the shutter in the SP titanium?   I guess they could burn a hole....
> > but the fabled and elusive Zeiss Contax, that penultimate of RF 
>cameras, had
> > a vertical metal shutter.  Better to ward off those nasty light rays!

Nikon went to the titanium shutter curtains with the F. The Nikon RFs 
were all cloth shuttered, like the Leicas.

Godfrey