Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ok guys, I open the F3 on my desk and wind the film advance. I see the two horizontally travelling shutter curtains that remind me of in an M and look like cloth. I am wrong on that. It is titanium, apparently. It is quite different to the vertically travelling titanium bladed shutter that is in my FE2. That one has four visible and distinct blades and they have a honeycomb pattern visible. They are very clearly metal. I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ken Iisaka Sent: Monday, 18 September 2006 13:55 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] FYI Before I plunged into the Leica world a little over 8 years ago, I had a slew of Nikon equipment, and the F3(hp) was one of my favourites. It actually had a titanium shutter curtain that was very, very durable. Nikon has been using titanium shutter curtains since 1964 or so, and even its rangefinder cameras (many SP, most S3 and S4) also had titanium curtains. The first vertical shutter in a Nikon was one of the Nikomat/Nikkormat cameras, if I remember correctly (FS?) G Hopkinson wrote: > Mark you are right on the FM, of course. That Nikon era is where I was > brung up. I still have an FE an FE2 and an F3 and some > earlier. I still recall being enormously impressed at 250th synch in the > FE2. I think the later FMs had that titanium shutter, too. > The F3 has a horizontally running cloth shutter. Very high quality one > with high mtbf I imagine. > Hey I'm just looking at mine, slow flash sync, big bright 100% finder, > split image manual focussing, slick manual film advance, > built like a tank albeit a Japanese one. Even got some brassing visible. > Almost a tiny bit M like when you look at it like that. > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information