Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:52 PM 4/17/01 -0400, Marc James Small wrote: > A mechanical >leaf-shutter design will have, as Austin indicates, some problems with >accuracy, though less than the error in a focal-plane shutter. But either >an electronically-assisted shutter or a pure electronic shutter will be >immensely accurate. > > >None of this matters in our current world, of course, where even chromes >are good for 1/3 of a stop up or down. > > >Marc The bottom line, concurrent with Marc's summary. None of this matters one iota. And if it did, you would not own a Leica M, Hasselblad 500 series, LF lens with shutter, etc. As a sidebar, I have an R4sP when tested by Ernst Hartmann, showed 100% shutter accuracy from 1sec to 1/1000th. Ernst said this is rare and I should keep it. So I did. I gave it to one of my sons. It is somewhere in France right now (honeymoon). Jim