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?
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