Many Older Shutters are in daily service.
Click below to see info about Compur, Ilex, Compound and some of their variants. American, British, German, French and Japanese companies participated in this major industry. In similar way to how the French automobile industry does not compete with the American automobile industry today, large sized photo manufacturing concerns often produced products completely independent of any international standards. Some customers, such as national armed forces, Eastman Kodak or Linhof were so important as to demand and have made unique products or variants to their own specifications. This situation resulted in non-standardization in the area of shutter manufacture.