Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The vertical shutters travels only 2/3 the distance that horizontal shutters do..... therefore they could open and shut faster.... and give faster shutter speeds..... That was the story when first introduced, recently...by Copal or/and Seiko. The "artistic" argument of the vertical vs horiz shutter had to do with not panning a horizontally moving object... say a bicycle.... and LONG exposures makes it most obvious......with a slit shutter also is worse... The original (or one of the best known at least) vertical shutters was the Zeiss Contax ... Marc, your cue......! Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html