Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon S3 millennium
From: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:26:30 +0000
 
Frank Filippone wrote:
> 
>  came back to my room and
> the Nikon with a lovely hole burned in the shutter.
> 
> Wasn't the shutter in the SP titanium?   I guess they could burn a hole....
> but the fabled and elusive Zeiss Contax, that penultimate of RF cameras, had
> a vertical metal shutter.  Better to ward off those nasty light rays!
> 
> Now the silk shutter cords were a bit fragile.
> 
> Frank
I don't recall what the shutter was made of, but i really did burn a hole in it.
John