Indeed. The mirror lifts the shutter blind vertically through a curved path
creating a travelling slit. Rewinding takes the mirror back down along with the
shutter blind in the closed position. Reliable but limited - the maximum speed
was 1/125th and later 1/175th so in the very late models they went back to a
regular focal plane shutter with instant return mirror. I think I have both
types in the cupboard.
Then of course there is the style used by the Mercury, the Robot and the
Olympus Pen F.
And if you aren’t careful, I’ll tell you all about the Wrayflex.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
www.soultheft.com
> On 1 Dec 2015, at 8:06 am, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And then there is the Exacta "Exa", which was my holiday camera for several
> years. If I picture the mechanism correctly, the mirror rotates as a part of
> the shutter. Limited, but very reliable, including use with a Braun strobe
> unit.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 11/30/2015 2:59 PM, Moose wrote:
>> On 11/30/2015 6:16 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> Hi Philippe,
>>>
>>> You are correct, as usual. I guess I was suffering from too much football
>>> and good food, and became a little more senile for a bit. Those mirrors do
>>> flip up. :-[
>>
>> Except, of course, for the Canon Pellix, it's Canon successors, the Nikon
>> F2H and the much more recent Sony SLTs
>>
>> Mirroring Philippe Moose
>>
>
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