Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As an IC designer albeit for mobile phones rather than cameras, I agree. It's IC's that are the problem and not discretes. Alot of the time discretes can be substituted and even barnacled. You can't do that with IC's. I had a Canon A1 that developed a fault with an IC, though I had got more use out of that camera than I can believe. However, after putting that many rolls of film through any camera as an amateur it hurts when they die. Rav. - ----Original Message Follows---- From: FIGLIO4CAP@aol.com Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] mechanical shutters Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:44:19 EST In a message dated 11/8/00 6:41:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, summarex@yahoo.com writes: << While it makes sense at first, defending the mechanical shutter as more reliable in the long term than the electronic one is like like claiming that an old adding machine is more reliable than a pocket calculator. It isn't. >> I think the real issue is the long-term availability of the integrated circuits, not that of individual transistors or diodes. These circuits do fail, although not very often. Bob Figlio _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.