Re: Super Ikonta Shutters (flash synch)

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:32:24 -0600, <jjs> wrote:

> It was/is my understanding that the old Zeiss Super Ikonta 'flash'
shutter 
> was called a Synchro, and that the Rapid and other shutters had no flash

> terminal.
> 
> However, on that big auction site a fellow has one with a Rapid shutter
and 
> claims that it has a flash terminal. He says it is just next to the
shutter 
> cocking lever. Is this atypical or am I just flat wrong?

The Compur-Rapid does have flash sync, or at least every Compur-Rapid
I've seen does. It's X sync, firing when the shutter is fully open.
The Synchro-Compur shutter adds M sync for flash bulbs.

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Matthew Winn
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