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Your Weekly Blog / Re: March 2023
« Last post by Dogman on Today at 14:41:49 »My dog likes her naps. D700 with 35/2 AI lens.
The F2 shutter is very thin titanium. The camera geometry of this horizontally running shutter seems to imply that it is rolled. I would not want to expose this shutter to focused sun light either.Ha, if only this was true of the F2AS I bought new back in 1978. In the first year it, according to the techo that rebuilt it, "tore the rivets out of the shutter". In the third year the shutter again self destructed shortly after I put an MB-3 on the camera. During this period I would have averaged 5 rolls of film per week ie approximately 10k frames per year...hardly a serious workload for a flagship unit. The poor electronics, 4* resistor rings consumed so far, well that's another rant
The modern vertical running shutters are descendants of a shutter appearing first in the Nikkormat camera nearly contemporary with the F2. The blades are obviously very thin, surely titanium again. maybe a little thicker, as the must not bend and hold up for hundred thousands of actuations.
The shutter of the F2 also travels horizontally, just checked.
The titanium has a structured pattern, presumably to make it stronger.