Talk:Bessa (35mm)
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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)
- Hi Vox, Thanks for the explanations and the nice table on Stephen Gandy's page. I agree, that only the A-mode cameras have a electronic shutter, the others a mechanic. However, I'm still not happy about the phrase used in the article. It implies, that this is a very special double Leica-type horizontal cloth shutter (term: curtain), especially because of the explanation "to prevent damage by the sun". This is a typical Leica issue (or generally RF with cloths curtains). In fact, this is solved simply by using metal blades, which is not very special to me. Also: every standard metal focal plane shutter has two sets of blades, one inner and one outer. The only special thing with the Bessa shutters is the fact, that the inner blades are coated grey for the TTL metering. What about changing the sentence to: "All the Cosina Voigtländer Bessa models have a vertical traveling metal-blade focal plane shutter, which does not have the issue of Leica-type cloth shutters where the sun might burn holes into the curtains."
Cheers, Christoph
