Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R: Is It Worth It?
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 17:27:15 -0400

Doug Herr jotted down the following:

> 
> Having large hands and a dominant left eye I'd wecome a mechanical camera in
> an R8 body shell, particularly if it had a continuously-variable shutter.

How would you create a mechanical, continuously-variable shutter?  I assume
that by this, you mean one that has no steps, or click stops, not just
half-stop shutter speed progression.

M.

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