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| + | :Hi, owner of a Bessa R here. The comment about the double shutter blades is attested to by sources such as [https://www.cameraquest.com/voigtchart.htm Stephen Gandy] who sells the cameras, knows the system well, and has contacts at the company. To my eyes, yes there do appear to be an inner and an outer layer of metal shutter blades (on the lens side the blades are painted gray and work with the TTL metering cell). While the autoexposure Bessa models may have an electronically-timed shutter, on my Bessa (and presumably other manual-exposure models) the shutter is mechanical and works normally with batteries removed. Cheers,--[[User:Voxphoto|Vox]] ([[User talk:Voxphoto|talk]]) 22:03, 18 July 2021 (UTC) | ||
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Hello, I just realized that there is a defenitely wrong statement about the shutter, which was even copied to Wikipedia! To my knowledge there is no such thing as a double focal plane shutter with two sets of curtains. How would that fit into a compact camera design? The truth is, that all Bessa models have a electronic vertically traveling metal blade shutter (see the camera manuals), most probably it’s a Seiko MFC-E2. Best regards Christoph
- Hi, owner of a Bessa R here. The comment about the double shutter blades is attested to by sources such as Stephen Gandy who sells the cameras, knows the system well, and has contacts at the company. To my eyes, yes there do appear to be an inner and an outer layer of metal shutter blades (on the lens side the blades are painted gray and work with the TTL metering cell). While the autoexposure Bessa models may have an electronically-timed shutter, on my Bessa (and presumably other manual-exposure models) the shutter is mechanical and works normally with batteries removed. Cheers,--Vox (talk) 22:03, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
