Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/11

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Subject: RE: Thoughts for Solms on a new M7 [Leica] Leica-Users List Diges
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 2:25 +0000 (PST)

Jim Laurel writes:

> My wish list for the M7:
> *	Replace the horizontally travelling cloth focal plane with a
> vertically travelling titanium one.  Keep it all mechanical.  The
> designers
> should be able to get at least 1/2000 out of it with no problem.  Plus,
> such
> a shutter will be more durable than the cloth one.

This is what I'd like to see too, not for the higher speed (though that
would be useful if I ever get a Noctilux), but for a higher flash sync
speed for daylight fill.