I was was wondering if anyone know who makes shutters? Are any made in-house or are they made and designed by special companies? I know of one sony camera, copal makes the shutter (lensrental).
Copal is, IIRC, sadly now out of business and it's getting increasingly harder and more expensive to find new copal shutters, and to repair them as well...
jianghai_ho wrote:
Copal is, IIRC, sadly now out of business and it's getting increasingly harder and more expensive to find new copal shutters, and to repair them as well...
This LensRentals teardown shows a Copal inside an A7R. Copal went out of buisness since then?
Probably thinking about Compur made by F. Deckel and not Copal.
I looked it up and the deal is that Nidec Copal has stopped producing their older mechanical shutters (as used in large format and technical lenses) but they are certainly not going out of business as they are the top maker of camera shutters.