Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] mechanical shutters
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 23:13:19 -0500

Robert Appleby jotted down the following:

> Is there any advantage to a mechanical shutter except for the battery
> independence? Surely mechanical shutter = complex = bad, electronic shutter
> = simple = good?

When it comes to Leica?  Yes.  They are mechanical marvels, wizards of
mechanisms, but they don't know %*&@ when it comes to electronics.  They
should either buy competence to bring their stuff up to date, or simply
stick to doing what they do well.

M.

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