Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Shutter durability
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 2:32 +0100 (PDT)

Nick Hunter writes:
 
> Somewhere I heard that the original F was designed for a million cycles!
> That spec has been falling with each model.

No, the design criterion for the F was 150,000, and every F series model
since has used the same criterion.

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