Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm so glad you brought this up, Martin.....I love these threads by "knowledgeable" folk about "it's just a capacitor".....bullshit... there hasn't been an electronic camera that WASN't surface mount, on flex boards, with proprietary components, since the Pentax ES...and even it had 1/8 w resistors and non-standard active devices...not exactly "radio shack" fare..... Rest assured, when your R3-8 and/or your Nikon FE/EL etc. is 30 years old, you will NOT get it repaired...oh yeah, you MIGHT salvage parts from another, but shops probably won't do this, or will do it at >1X the value of the camera in question. >>>ALL<<< electronics today are disposable, not just cameras... If you want the features of the Hexar/R8/M7(!), buy the damn thing...use it up!!! (that's what you probably should do anyway), beat the crap out of it making pictures, and throw it away with you DVD and "AV" receiver in 15 years..... but don't think you'll get a "sherry" or "dag" to fix it in 25 years, as they do today with M3s...ain't gonna happen..... Your faithful public critic, Walt On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:27:22 -0500 Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> wrote: > Javier Perez jotted down the following: > > > There's only one type of electronic component that can reasonably be expected > > to deteriorate in an electronically timed shutter. It's the capacitor or > > capacitors that govern speed as a function of discharge rate. > > Oh really? What about the integrated circuits that have been popular in > cameras with electronically timed shutters for the past 25 odd years? > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | "And many photographers will also appreciate > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | the separate control rings for focus and > email: howard.390@osu.edu | aperture." -- Leica lens ad copy. > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +-------------------------------------------- > >