Focal Plane Shutters

[rdenney]

So it doesn't fit.

That's what I said in my original post.

Either it does or it doesn't. Saying that 'it fits except...' doesn't work.

- Leigh

C'mon, Leigh, I wasn't disagreeing (except for shutters currently offered), I was explaining. Knowing why something doesn't fit well empowers people to work around constraints. Of course "it fits except" works--this forum describes such compromises all the time. And it's useful to know that a Norma-era shutter will fit on an F or P without issue, if one does not need the aperture control.

Rick "arguments are down the hall" Denney

[Leigh]

I was just funnin' with you, Rick.

Don't get your knickers in an uproar. ;-)

- Leigh

[Sevo]

Knowing why something doesn't fit well empowers people to work around constraints. Of course "it fits except" works--this forum describes such compromises all the time.

What's more, the original poster was asking for a shutter for his pinhole camera, the one thing where front tilts are utterly use- and meaningless...

[Jim Jones]

What's more, the original poster was asking for a shutter for his pinhole camera, the one thing where front tilts are utterly use- and meaningless...

Not always. When extreme rise is used in pinhole photography, as in photographing tall buildings, back tilt is useful for partly equalizing exposure and sharpness over the entire image.

[E. von Hoegh]

For pinhole use, there's a good shutter built into the filmholder.

[Clive Gray]

And there I was thinking a picture painted a thousand words.

The crap shot I posted is of a "p" era Auto shutter on a norma front standard, it is fully functtional with no problems. As Rick stated it will not fit on the intermedaite standard as that is a different design.

I believe although I don't have a reference to hand for it that the Auto shutter was also produced during the Norma era.

Neither the Sinar Digitail nor expolux shutter will mount on the Norma front standards I checked physically the other week for completeness.

The Auto shutter is still available in the UK or at least was last time I last checked just before the holidays.

So in black and white any era of Auto shutter fits and works on the Norma camera see above photo.

[rdenney]

And there I was thinking a picture painted a thousand words.

I wish I'd seen that was a Norma standard at first, like I certainly should have. The base tilts of the Norma make these sorts of things a lot more possible.

One of these days, I'm going to find a Norma for the right price and I'm going to buy it. Neat cameras.

Rick "who still, sadly, need words" Denney

[Leigh]

And there I was thinking a picture painted a thousand words.

It certainly can. The question is "Which words?".

There are about 100,000 words in the language.
Posting a picture with none of them forces the viewer to pick 1% of them, with a low probability that the result has any relation to the topic under discussion.

- Leigh

[E. von Hoegh]

It certainly can. The question is "Which words?".

There are about 100,000 words in the language.
Posting a picture with none of them forces the viewer to pick 1% of them, with a low probability that the result has any relation to the topic under discussion.

- Leigh

I thought there were about 450,000 words.

[Leigh]

I thought there were about 450,000 words.

If you include technical vocabularies that's probably closer to reality.

So the chance of the picture being meaningful falls to 1 in 450 or about 0.2%.

- Leigh