In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Robb) wrote:
> It is rather a noisy camera, perhaps the person who started this legend > was standing beside one in use and decided that anything that loud had > to vibrate. Some large format SLRs do vibrate that much. The camera shop where I used to work had a Zenit 80 (Russian copy of early focal-plane-shutter Hasselblad) in for repair once, which we looked at in wonderment. If you put it on a solid surface and fired the shutter with a cable release, it did actually jump clear of the surface. I saw daylight under it, briefly. --- John Dallman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

