Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] No light seals?
From: Gaifana@aol.com
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:57:25 EDT

It's an interesting question.  A lot of cameras just don't have them, and my 
suspicion is that it is because they only came into vogue with Japanese SLRs. 
 Light seals are probably easier to make than complex tooling to make 
baffles.  Some observations:

Rolleiflex: baffles
Canon rangefinders: baffles
Russian rangefinders: black yarn or foam
Russian 6x9 folders: baffles
Hexar RF: baffles plus rubber gaskets
Most Japanese fixed lens RFs: light seals
SLRs: light seals