Re: Super Ikonta Shutters (flash synch)

Matthew Winn wrote:
> 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.
> 
There are Compurs-Rapids without flash sync: I think those with a "T" 
and "B" positions (I had one in a kodak 620 duo)