Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:22:53 EDT > From: LEICAMAN56@aol.com > Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Shutter accuracy? > <snip> > > There are a few problems with this approach as far as Leica is concerned. > They feel that the cloth focal plane shutter is the quietest and most > reliable shutter on the market. This shutter is the essence of the Leica > M camera. Also, supposedly, a vertically travelling shutter wouldn't fit > in the classic M body. There is also the other problem that there is only > one manufacturer of bladed shutters in the world today; Copal. Leica does > not want to be held ransome to one shutter manufacturer. <snip> > > Bill Rosauer > Looks like Minolta still makes quite Leica-like horizontally running cloth focal plane shutters for their manual focus cameras, electronic versions did exist until lately. For a rangefinder camera the most durable would be titanium foil shutter like in Pentax LX - it could be made to fit in Leica body. PS! Mikiro - what´s your e-mail address? All the best! Raimo Photos at: http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen