Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/11

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Subject: Re: another R? (was: RE: [Leica] Re: Leicaholic)
From: "David Kieltyka" <daverk@email.msn.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:07:17 -0500

Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:

> A couple months ago Patrick Sobalvarro wrote:
>
>> My SL2 went to Sherry Kraeuter (who I find does
>> superb work) recently for an overhaul for a few
>> minor issues and one major one -- the 1/2000th
>> was not opening. Sherry handled all the minor
>> issues, but said that to fix the 1/2000th would
>> require a shutter rebuild for another $350 or so,
>> and she thought it wasn't worth it. This because
>> she says it might fail at any time after that --
>> she says that SL2s have always had this problem,
>> and I have also heard complaints about the SL2
>> shutter from other top Leica people. As of now
>> she says that the 1/2000th will fire if the
>> shutter is left uncocked until just before use --
>> otherwise it will "hit through" (which presumably
>> means something to someone who knows the innards
>> of an SL2 shutter). The other speeds use a
>> different mechanism, so they're more reliable.
>
> My own SL2 has a bum 1/2000 sec shutter speed, in fact it's
> no good between 1/1000 and 1/2000 too.
>
> This shouldn't be a problem for me 'cuz any time my shutter
> speeds get over 1/500 sec (560mm hand-held excepted) I start
> using a slower film.

FWIW the 1/2000th speed on my SL2 works fine. But I've never actually used
it other than when shooting a test roll of E200 (at EI 320) right after I
bought the camera. The SL2 and Kodachrome 25 have taken quite a liking to
each other so I tend to hang out at the slower end of the shutter dial.

- -Dave-