Originally posted by Jonson PL Nice shot Monochrome. Camera porn at its best.
Yes, The K2 and K2 DMD shared the same Seiko shutter.
The was some discussion about this shutter, mirror lockup and vibration in another forum:
K2 shutter vibration question
From the Kent Gittings post above.
"When (Herbert) Keppler did a test (POP, June 99) of cameras with and without the
mirror locked up, the biggest difference was around 1/15th of a second,
where locking up the mirror could increase the resolution from a 135 mm lens
by 80%.
If you use a long exposure, like a few seconds, it won't make that much
difference, since the vibrations will occur only for a small percentage of
the time the exposure is underway. With a 5 second exposure, Keppler found
that there was no difference in resolution with or without the mirror locked
up. This might be why Mark Roberts likes his K2 "with small apertures, long
shutter speeds."
When Popular Photography tested the K2 (December 1976) they reported the
shutter vibration was about 0.7 volts, double the average of cameras tested
up to that time. (For the cloth focal plane shutter MX, by contrast, the
vibration level was about 0.2 volts)."
Interesting.
Cheers
Tom G
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