Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: > > Dan Cardish wrote: > snip > > 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 Certainly! The 50th sync speed tells you the curtain travel time! Nothing more! Dennis