Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon S3 millennium
From: Amilcar de Oliveira <amilcar@domain.com.br>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:18:13 -0300

Around 1979 I borrowed an F with cloth curtains. It had a prism with external
metering that could be converted to incident metering.

Amilcar

Frank Dernie wrote:

>
>
> AFAIK Godfrey the shutter material changed during production such that
> early SP's and S3's had cloth and late ones titanium. My SP has titanium
> curtains for example. I have read that the early F's had cloth, although
> whether they made it past the prototype stage I do not know. It is amazing
> how many parts from the rangefinders were used on the F.
>
> Cheers Frank