Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Shutter accuracy?
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:26:42 -0700

Dennis Painter wrote:
> 
> Mark Rabiner wrote:
snip 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
What I implying which I guess is not obvious to every single person on
the list is that Leica is ultra conservative in the updating of its
shutter design on the M.
It is still cloth instead of quilted titanium, 
not quartz, 
not vertical and 
not more highly tensioned or otherwise faster and not propelled by electrons.
A 50th sync speed time on a 35mm camera made in 1999 is a loud statement
of words more than numbers.
Mark Rabiner

The fact that I turn 50 a few days after 2001 I feel is too symbolic for
even me to absorb.