Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The SP was made with cloth and titanium shutter curtains at different times during the production run. - -----Original Message----- From: john [mailto:bosjohn@mediaone.net] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 12:27 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon S3 millennium Frank Filippone wrote: > > came back to my room and > the Nikon with a lovely hole burned in the shutter. > > Wasn't the shutter in the SP titanium? I guess they could burn a hole.... > but the fabled and elusive Zeiss Contax, that penultimate of RF cameras, had > a vertical metal shutter. Better to ward off those nasty light rays! > > Now the silk shutter cords were a bit fragile. > > Frank I don't recall what the shutter was made of, but i really did burn a hole in it. John