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

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]
Subject: Re: [Leica] Shutter durability
From: Ken Iisaka <kiisaka@ms.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 13:41:18 +0900
 
Stephen wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

It's like Modern Photography is such a reliable source of information,
anyway.

Nikon may have 150,000 cycles (mean?  95 percentile?) as a design goal,
but a certain number of samples may function for well over 500,000
cycles without malfunction or adjustment.