Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I love my Abrahamsson soft releases. There is only one problem. When I >carry my camera at my side I find I inadvertently hit the release. This >also seems to happen when putting the body back in my camera bag. A lot >of blank frames. Anybody have similar experiences and enlightened >solutions? > >Carl S. seeing posts of this nature fairly often, I wonder if I'm the only one out of step....I was taught some fourty years ago to not advance film ( cock shutter) until ready for the shot...I have heard that to be able to catch the instant, one should keep shutter cocked, but I have gotten so used to advancing film as I brought camera to bear that this has never been a problem. tom>