They are at quite a distance from the film. > > From: Sylwester Pietrzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/11/07 Tue PM 03:00:13 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Stupid Q. about central vs. curtain shutter > > On 07.11.2006, at 13:42 , Anthony Farr wrote: > > > I suppose you mean leaf shutters, aka interlens shutters, aka > > Synchro-Compur, aka Copal#0 or 1 or 2 etc. That design can't be > > used at the > > focal plane because it begins opening from the centre, and finishes > > closing > > at the centre, which would cause a huge exposure imbalance between the > > centre of the frame and the corners. That doesn't matter within > > the lens > > where the image is still unresolved. > > > > As, well, the aperture of the fully opened shutter would need to be > > as big > > as the format's diagonal measurement, which is many times bigger > > than it > > needs to be inside the lens. > Hmmm... so what about central (leaf) shutters in some compact cameras > and older rangefinder like Minolta Hi Matic or Olympus 35 RC/RD? > > Cheers, > Sylwek > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >
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