Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Merits of various designs as described by a Nikon historian - interesting connection between the shutter travel direction and optimization http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/society/rhnc/rhnc11shut2-e.htm Even Nikon has endorsed the idea of vertical... on 9/24/01 8:20 PM, Frank Filippone at red735i@earthlink.net wrote: > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html