Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Shutter accuracy?
From: Dennis Painter <dpainter@bigfoot.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:00:51 -0700

Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
> Dan Cardish wrote:
> snip 
> 
> I can show a contact sheet to someone who questions the Leica M's
> shutter or meter. I can show them a stack of contact sheets. Worth a
> thousand words with numbers added in case you loose track.
> Specifically what I had in mind was A NEW CAMERA drying out on the
> DEALER shelf and tested before a roll goes through. But even from stupid
> Pop and Mod tests for decades we know that 1000th is hit or miss unless
> it's some quartz electronic deal which is not the Leica M Persona. That
> Persona is a conservatively refined for generations fine tuned and
> innovative but not quartz.
> Does a 50th sync speed tell you anything?
> Mark Rabiner

Certainly! The 50th sync speed tells you the curtain travel time! 
Nothing more! 


Dennis