Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My F2 curtains had tiny rectangular dimples, less than a millimetre wide. The depressions were very shallow. You could say it was almost a plain titanium foil. Amilcar Mark Rabiner wrote: > Ken Iisaka wrote: > > > > > Nikon went to the titanium shutter curtains with the F. The Nikon RFs > > > were all cloth shuttered, like the Leicas. > > > > The first few hundred Fs had cloth shutter curtains, unofficially. The > > later SPs which were produced alongside Fs had titanium shutters, as > > well as black S3s which were produced in 1963. If the cloth shutter was > > damaged, Nikon replaced it with titanium, so you occasionally see S2, > > early SPs, chrome S3s and S4s with titanium curtain. > > > > I have heard of someone attempting to retrofit a titanium curtain in a > > Leica body. I do not know whether it was successful or not. (now on > > topic!) > > I seem to remember the F2 had a QUILTED titanium shutter. Remember that quilted > aluminum foil! > Mark Rabiner