At 18:46 10.2.2001 +1300, you wrote:
> How did you get a view camera to do 1/1000? I didn't think shutters that
>fast were available for them, and I don't think focal plane shutters exist
for LF
>(now they'd have a slow sync speed!).
>
> Or do you consider 6x7 as being large format? :)
>
>Cheers,
>- Dave
AFAIK Speed Graphics had 1/1000 exposure, with their focal plane shutters.
After all, 1/1000 is pretty easy for a FP shutter - you just have to choose
narrow-enough slit. Even Leica back before world war two had 1/1000 afaik.
And Contax had even more: 1/1250s!(of course, these were only approx.
times. Photographers commonly sticked their own measured times on their
shutters) (BTW, Nikon's FM2's 1/4000 is said to be pretty inaccurate too,
being mechanical only, not electronic timed. Any Ex-N***N to confirm this
:)? ). Even some of the leaf shutters for ' Graphics had 1/1000 top speed
(although propably more like 1/750 in fact).
Only improvement that has been made is that the shutter curtains move a
lot faster now - so we don't get the leaning fast moving subjects (e.g.
wheels on race cars - interesting that Speed Graphics & Leicas/Contaxes
actually were at the back of all the Comics pictures of fast moving cars as
leaning/skewed... Funny how the mass mind works).
Frantisek
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