Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Shutter/S. Gandy
From: "Fantoni, Ernesto" <Fantoni@PHIBRED.COM>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 06:51:35 -0500 
Stephen,

if you take a look to the Nikon brochures (at least F3 and F5) you'll
read the shutter has been tested for 150,000 cycles.

Ernesto

> ----------
> Subject: 	Re: [Leica] Shutter durability
> 
> What's your source?   In  August 1972,  Modern Photography reported in
> its Too Hot to Handle column that a Nikon spokesman that the F shutter
> functioned over 500,000 cycles without a malfunction.
> 
> Stephen Gandy
>