----- Original Message ----- From: "Lon Williamson" Subject: OT: leaving old Copal electronic shutter cocked: Allowed?
> My new-to-me Rikoh XR-2 has a vertical > Copal CSS-E electronically controlled shutter. > > Will leaving this cocked weaken anything? > I downloaded the manual from butkus.org, > and no mention of any problem leaving the camera > cocked. It does not even have a "shutter cocked" > indicator. > > I understand from others that this is the same > shutter used in the Nikon FM. It shouldn't, since the shutter is electronic. It may be the same shutter as the FE, the FM was a mechanical shutter. William Robb
