Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, it is the shutter design that was set for 1/1000. Remember this is a 1950-something design. At that time, state of the art was 1/1000 ( or 1/1250 if you are a Contax fan). At this speed, there is a shutter slit traveling across the film plane. Shutter speed is equal to the width of the slit and the speed of the moving slit across the film plane. Consistency of that speed is the most crucial design parameter, not the speed itself. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html