Re: Zeiss Ikonta Shutter - Rapid and Synchro - both have flash?

"Ken Hart" <kwhart1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:fq9g84$v50$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> How big a solenoid would it take to trip the old wind-up focal plane 
> shutters in the press cameras?! (The shutter curtain had four different 
> size slits and the was a tension setting to control how fast the slit 
> moved.)

Hello, Ken. The solenoids in question are tiny things, about the size of
the 
end of your little finger. It did not wind the FC shutter. It merely
tripped 
the lens' leaf shutter.

Here's a most excellent picture of one. Scroll down. 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lommen9/GRAFLITE/index.html