Re: [Leica] Leicaflex SL Shutter

["Bud Cook" <budcook@ibm.net>]

Tom,
I thought all of the earlier Leica shutters (M1/2/3, SL and SL/2) were
variable except between 1/30 and 1/60 (or something like that).
Bud
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Finnegan <tomf@piengr.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:14 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leicaflex SL Shutter


>
>
> I was checking out a SL earlier this week at the local Leica dealer, and I
> remembered that Doug and perhaps others had mentioned previously here that
> the Leicaflex/SL/SL2 have a continously variable shutter. I asked the
Leica
> guy there about it and that was the first time he had ever heard that
> before. Although he did admit that he wasn't really an expert on these
> particular models. We looked through a couple references he had behind the
> counter, but didn't see and mention one way or the other. Even though the
> metering arm in the display moves continously between stops, he was a bit
> skeptical that the shutter was stepless. Does anybody have a reference
that
> describes the shutter design, perhaps the original owners manual? I've
been
> frequently annoyed in the past with the whole shutter speeds only on my R4
> in manual mode. I would like to trade it the R4 in at some point for a R7
> or R8 which have half-speeds in manual, but that will have to wait for
> awhile.TIA
>
> Tom Finnegan
> Seattle
>
>