Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Cardish wrote: snip In any case, I think it was my weeks worth > of clicking the shutter that loosened up the lubrication etc., and that > brought the shutter back from the dead. I've used that camera quite a bit > since then, never a problem. > Obviously, this shouldn't be a problem with a new camera, though. snip > At 09:27 PM 17-04-99 -0700, Mark R. wrote: > >How long did it sit on a shelf before it went through this test without > >a roll put though it? > >I would get a few rolls put through it first to warm it up before I > >started hooking it up to an oscilloscope. The camera had dried out on > >the shelf. I can show a contact sheet to someone who questions the Leica M's shutter or meter. I can show them a stack of contact sheets. Worth a thousand words with numbers added in case you loose track. Specifically what I had in mind was A NEW CAMERA drying out on the DEALER shelf and tested before a roll goes through. But even from stupid Pop and Mod tests for decades we know that 1000th is hit or miss unless it's some quartz electronic deal which is not the Leica M Persona. That Persona is a conservatively refined for generations fine tuned and innovative but not quartz. Does a 50th sync speed tell you anything? Mark Rabiner