That's cool information to read, thanks!
Quote Originally Posted by Bob Salomon View Post
American Traffic Systems needed a medium format camera with a leaf shutter that could operate at its highest speeds so it would synch with strobe for their traffic cameras. They chose the Hasselblad EL cameras with their latest Prontor shutters. Once in service they found that after a couple of shots at 1/500 the shutters broke down.
So they contacted us and bought Rollei 6008 cameras with the PQS linear motor leaf shutters with carbon fiber blades that could reach a true 1/1000. They installed the first system in the backwoods of Australia and contacted us to let us know that after 100,000 exposures at 1/1000 they had no failures. A mechanical shutter could not reach 1/500 and could not reliably operate continuously at that speed. The spring would break.
The Rollei shutter had no springs.