"Jaros�aw Brzezi�ski" wrote:
>
> Just out of curosity: how did you test shutter speeds that your camera is unable to
> synchronise properly with a flash?
> I am not negating the results; I just cannot imagine what that results of this test
> looked like to give you grounds for stating that the shutter is stepless.
>
J, I did the unthinkable: Fired above synch speed at several speeds
above
1/60th of a second and looked at the results. You see the shutter above
that.
What these pictures look like is a sliver of the wall, and increasing
amounts
of black horizontal framing due to a shutter driven above "synch speed."
I measured, and wowie zowie, the KM is stepless. The whole point for me
in
doing this is that my Big Useless Brain had read repair men who
cautioned
that some old manual cameras really do "rearrange" themselves to one of
the traditional shutter speeds if you select in-between. I was curious
about the old K bodies, which I love unreasonably well, so I wasted a
roll.
The KM is stepless. Or at least mine is.
This is important to me because I do a lot of closeups where DOF is the
over-riding concern.
Cheers.
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