"Albano_Garcia" writes:
>It's well known by everybody that a mechanical shutter can become inacurate
>with use and time, needing adjustment.
>My question is what about electronic ones? As long as the circuit is alive,
>the speeds will be equal no matter how many times they are fired or they
>can become inacurate? Is possible for a circuit to become "unadjusted", or
>as long as it lives it is always equal?
The mechanical components to the shutter can get out of adjustment. Even
though the timing functions are based on a crystal oscillator, it can drift
over time, so the electronic timings can change slightly. All in all, I'd
rely on the electronic shutter being more accurate for longer than a
mechanical one.
However, strange problems can strike electronic cameras that couldn't
happen to mechanical ones. For example, my Ricoh body had a problem where
the shutter speeds were one position off on the dial. Turned out to be an
oscillator problem.
later,
patbob ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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