Cant remember camera with free, no step shutter speed

Mustafa Umut Sarac

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I remember an camera may be 30 years ago with free shutter speeds as 1/298 or 1/54, what was the camera brand and model and how about the price ?

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Umut
 

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Any camera with an electronic shutter and aperture preferred auto-exposure will do it. There are many.

Do your own research and shopping.
 

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The Yashica Electro 35 series would fit that bill, as would a LOMO LC-A. There should be plenty of others, but these are two I own (and thus know about).
 

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The Leicaflex has "continuously-variable (shutter speeds) except between 1/4 second 1/8 sec, and between 1/30 sec and 1/60 sec" according to an article I saw on photo.net by Douglass Herr. I have two of those cameras here, but no way to confirm this w/o a shutter speed tester. It sounds about right though,
 
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I am talking about stepless shutter , free numbers such as NOT 1/30 BUT 1/39-1/45- /1/536- 1/145 AND SO, It was minolta or olympus....
 

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wiltw said:
...and even when in Auto, I know only of shutter steps of 1/6EV,. not 'stepless'
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Most cameras are stepless when in Auto mode. I would prefer that it would be stepped but they are not. I think except the newer Canon EOS. Even my Nikon DSLR are stepless.
 

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But from his wording Umut means a camera where

one either can set such crooked figures deliberately (as in time preset) , or which are indicated automatically after setting a fixed aperture (as in aperture preset).

In any case such camera must have been already digitally controlled to yield such display.
 

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Chan Tran said:
Most cameras are stepless when in Auto mode. I would prefer that it would be stepped but they are not. I think except the newer Canon EOS. Even my Nikon DSLR are stepless.
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I just did a sequence, with 'scene' black vs white, moving the split across the viewfinder so the black/white was at 1/12 of the frame, 2/12 of the frame, 3/12 of the frame....to 11/12 of the frame, with my 7DII on Av mode so that the scene was increasingly 'bright'...the only speeds chosen by the Canon 7DII with fixed f/4 were 1/3EV selections as interrogated by Lightroom info...hardly stepless, but matching the Menu setup selection previously chosen.

My Bronica ETRSi increments are based upon which metering finder
  • AE-II finder meters and sets shutter in 1/6EV
  • AI-III finder meters and sets shutter in 1/12EV
 
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The Rolleiflex SL35E has stepless speeds in manual and auto modes. The shutter speed dial has no click-stops and can be set in between marked speeds.
 

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This is true for the Rolleiflex SL2000 also, which, so I understand, has the same electronics as the SL35E.
 

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I don't know whether the issue of a stepless shutter, as it has been described, has any practical application. I started nearly fifty years ago with a Konica Autoreflex T2. That camera had shutter priority automation so the shutter speeds were fixed. Based on the mechanics of the system used to set the aperture, the f/stop settings probably weren't infinitely variable but they were close enough given the exposure latitude of the films available at that time. For certain applications, aperture priority automation is preferable. The argument over which was better was settled when the Minolta XD-11 and Canon A-1 models came out. My aperture preferred film cameras include the Minolta XE-5, XD-11, X-700, X-9, X-370 and many Maxxum models, Canon New F-1 (w/AE finder), Nikon FE, Nikon FE2, Nikon F3, Nikon N2020, Nikon N8008, Nikon N90S, Pentax ME Super, Olympus OM2S, Olympus OM2N, Olympus OMG, Olympus OMPC, Olympus OM10, Sears KS Auto etc. All of these, if in good repair, will give accurate exposure, even with slide film. If there is an aperture priority film camera which is in good repair and which can't achieve correct exposure based on varying the shutter speed, I don't know about it. My old 105/4 Bellows Nikkor allows 1/3 stop aperture adjustments. That isn't really needed now. Some cameras, like the Minolta X-700, will change the shutter speed in mid-exposure if lighting conditions change. That's about as much as you need.
 

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Seemingly I am the only who tried to keep near what Umut was thinking of: a displayed crooked figure.
 
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