Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Karen, the canon I had seemed to have an ally foil shutter. It looked fragile so I never checked, it was painted black. It had a few wrinkles in it which looked like the sort of thing one might get in ally but unlikely in any steel alloy. still I can't be sure. cheers Frank On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 11:31 pm, Karen Nakamura wrote: >> Good point, still, the aluminium foil used in Canon rangefinders was >> lighter....... :-) > > ??? The Canon rangefinders I have used a stainless steel foil. I'm not > aware of an aluminium foil version. > > Contax and its Kiev clones used Brass shutters. Talk about heavy! > > Karen > > > > >>> What about the titanium shutter foil used in Nikon rangefinders, >>> Hasselblad 2000 series SLRs, and some others? >>> >>> Karen > > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html