Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] mechanical shutters
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:27:22 -0500

Javier Perez jotted down the following:

> There's only one type of electronic component that can  reasonably be expected
> to deteriorate in an electronically timed shutter. It's the capacitor or
> capacitors that govern speed as a function of discharge rate.

Oh really?  What about the integrated circuits that have been popular in
cameras with electronically timed shutters for the past 25 odd years?

M.

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