Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Carsten, Thanks for the excellent explanation! Nathan Carsten Bockermann wrote: > Nathan, > > your experience with the M6 shutter is perfectly normal. At speeds faster > than the sync speed, only the distance between shutter curtains will be > changed for different speeds. At longer speeds, a small weight attached to > the second curtain will have to be moved to delay this curtain; the > bouncing back of this weight causes the clicking sound. At speeds longer > than 1/8 (if I remember correctly), a sort of clockwork is used for further > delay. This causes the humming sound. > > Carsten > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Carsten_Bockermann/