Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com