Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/05

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Subject: [Leica] Photokina _ The lens on Tom's RD1
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Tue Oct 5 00:57:31 2004
References: <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNGEDKAFAB.red735i@earthlink.net>

All the digicams with teensy sensors have the video style chips with 
"continuous" output so people can hold them out at arm's length and get 
shaky pix :-)
All the serious cameras with large chips, including the RD1, need a 
shutter.


On 5 Oct, 2004, at 03:04, Frank Filippone wrote:

> What shutter?  you don't need no stinking shutter in a digital camera.
> There is need for a sensor cover.  A motor to uncover a sensor that 
> only
> needs to be covered when you change lenses?  Sounds like overkill.
>
> I missed the original posting in this..... can someone point me to the
> proper archive for the Zeiss M camera?
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
> It is not fake. The shutter has to be cocked. There is no motor to do
> it in the base camera.
>
>
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