Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why don't you try photographing some evenly lit object, like a wall with slide film, and see if you can see a difference on film. If not, then don't worry about it. Have you ever tested other camera shutters in this manner? It may well be that EVERY focal plane shutter is like this, except no one goes about trying to measure it. Dan C. At 05:46 PM 17-04-99 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, I'm very new to this group. I hope this is an appropriate question >for this list? I recently bought a new M6, today acually. I was >checking the shutter speed at 1/1000 and found starting speed was >around 1100uSec and the ending speed was around 700uSec. That means >there is about 2/3's of a stop difference across the film. Is this >normal or did I get a lemon? I would have thought a new camera would be >much better than this. (test was done using a laser pointer, photo >transistor, and scope). > >thanks >Wayne > > >