Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Karen- >OK - How did you measure that :-) Is this an average of a number of >M7's? Why would an M3 be even faster? Bet in a large sampling of >existing M3's and M7's it's not a significant difference at say 1/125th >(standardized to a single speed, even though it shouldn't be different) ... >What d'ya think?? I'd bet the M7 's Std. Dev. is A LOT smaller as well. ;-) The M7 figure is from Leica. The M7 has a small delay as the AE circuit judges the light and sets the appropriate exposure. The M3 has no circuitry, when the shutter is pressed, the curtains are released. Zap. Karen Nakamura p.s. Note that shutter lag is very different from shutter-black-out-time, which is what many people are referring to with the D2 and Canon EOS 1Ds. An SLR can have a shutter-lag of 3 seconds as it tries to focus, then a mirror black out of 67 msec. when it finally gets around to opening the shutter. - -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html