Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Shutter durability
From: Stephen <cameras@jetlink.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 19:45:02 -0400

David Morton wrote:

> No, the design criterion for the F was 150,000, and every F series
> model
> since has used the same criterion.

What's your source?   In  August 1972,  Modern Photography reported in
its Too Hot to Handle column that a Nikon spokesman that the F shutter
functioned over 500,000 cycles without a malfunction.

Stephen Gandy