Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Shutter Release
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:46:37 -0700 (PDT)

Denton Taylor wrote:

<snip>

>I see I am going to love this camera! But I find it has one idiosyncracy.
>The shutter release needs to be pressed very far down when taking a photo,
>so much so that I have to lift my finger to a very high angle. It feels
>quite unnatural. I asked my wife and child to try, and they had less of a
>problem, perhaps because my fingers are larger.
>
>Does anyone else find this to be a problem? Does anyone have a solution?
>I'm thinking of getting one of those release buttos that screw into the
>shutter cable release, but that seems kinda tacky on a Leica. Although it's
>funny--Wall Street had another Leica with one attached.

There is a long arm under the cover under the baseplate which controls how
far down you have to push the release before it fires. A small adjustment
here is what you need.


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