Re: [Leica] M6 Shutter accuracy?

["4Season" <4season@boulder.net>]

Actually, this is not a bug, it's a built-in graduated neutral-density
filter of sorts :-)

So *that's* why 1/8000th sec shutter speeds did not become common years
ago--I would've thought that you could get any arbitrarily high figure
simply by reducing the minimum gap between the shutter curtains, but I guess
that'd magnify the effects of any speed variances as the curtains traversed
the gate. Tell me, at 1/500th sec and below, does the measured error become
such a small percentage of the total exposure as to be negligible?

Me, I'm not going to worry too much--my M6 is certainly not as
pinpoint-precise as the F4 I used to own (guess that some progress does
occur in 25+ years) but it does get the job done, and this old
spring-powered design sure is nice and small. If possible, I'll have the
finder framing accuracy and meter tweaked a bit when it goes in for service,
as mine seems a bit casual in both regards. In my area, John Van Stelton's
running a 4-week backlog, so either I'm going to want a 2nd M body, else
will have to reserve my place in line, and only bring in the camera when
actually required to do so.

Jeff
- -----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Shumaker <shumaker@ma.ultranet.com>

>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?