Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]quite so - and the maximum shutter speed is determined by how much pressure you can instantly deliver to the bulb. slow steady pressure delivers slower shutter speed. when you take your thumb off the release hole at the top of the bulb the shutter will remain open for focusing or long exposures. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 27, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Jim Nichols wrote: > Thanks for the link. The ones that I became familiar with were all > pneumatic, operated by a squeeze bulb and a long rubber tube. > Handy for a quick release while entertaining a small child by > holding a stuffed animal above your head, to get them looking in > the right direction and smiling. ;~) > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" > <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 2:39 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question > > >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> I think I have mentioned this previously. My late father-in-law >>> had a >>> small, upstairs on Main Street, studio in which he used an old, >>> wooden 8x10 >>> studio camera, fitted with a split 5x7 back, to shoot 3.5x5 portrait >>> negatives. It paid the bills for several hard years, before he >>> found >>> something to provide a better income. >>> >>> Did you ever use a Packard Shutter? >>> >>> Jim Nichols >> >> >> I've never head of them but they are still here and I checked it >> out and now >> I know. >> http://www.packardshutter.com/ >> >> We got a lot of use out of a SPEED GRAPHIC the first photo studio >> I moved >> into more before I got there becaue of the shutter. Putting all >> kinds of >> weird projection lenses and enlarger lenses on it for copy work. >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information