Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Nikon S3 millennium
From: Greg.Chappell@bankofamerica.com
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:16:46 -0600

The SP was made with cloth and titanium shutter curtains at different times
during the production run.

- -----Original Message-----
From: john [mailto:bosjohn@mediaone.net]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 12:27 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon S3 millennium


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