Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Verticle shutters not reliable? Hah, I have a 1972 Nikkormat with a copal square in it, it just keeps on ticking. I have a late sixties Topcon with the same copal square, keeps on ticking. I have a couple of EOS 1's with veritcle shutters, a little over four seconds a roll and they keep on ticking. Some shutters have problems, the shutter that Canon put into the 630, 650 would loose it's lube on the blades and die very suddenly. The shutter in the 8008, N90, F4, F5 have been extremely reliable with hundreds of thousands of frames MTBF. I believe that the R9 shutter is a close relative so I would have no worries about the shutter until you have taken 200,000 frames or so. All in all not what you could get in the old M's but not bad at all. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 9/17/06, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > On 9/17/06 7:04 PM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> typed: > > > Gene that F3 shutter isn't very vertical, unless you're lying down! > > > > Cheers > > Hoppy > > > > > I think the FM had the first vertical shutter for Nikon. I still have > mine. > Or at least the version that's in the camera right now I'm sure I've had > it > replaced three times since 1978 when I got it. With an MD-11 winder which > is > a good reason then to get into FM's in the first place. > A response to Maitani's OM1. They had to do something innovative other > than > not have it emulate a Mac Truck like Nikon and Canon F's. > > This gave you a blazingly fast unheard of until then on an SLR 125th of a > second sync speed!!!! > > > > > Mark Rabiner > > 40?46'58.65"N 73?49'31.68"W > Whitestone NY 11357 > > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >