Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It just doesn't make sense but Martin is right. They are as smmmmmooooothe as silk and they don't prostitute the appearance of your Leica. Yes, the price is rediculous but I guess that's the fare for manufacturing small runs of anything. I would think that Leica could drop the price of M6's after using basically the same moulds for almost fifty years, but they haven't have they? I loaned an M6 to my niece with one attached and when I received it back it was missing. I went for several weeks without one and I sorely missed it. I ordered four this time; two black and two red. Now I'm back in business. You just have to try one....the price of one pizza will pay for it and it will last forever (no heartburn), but please don't loan it to your niece. Bob Bedwell << N. B. Watson wrote: > > Please pardon my apparent ignorance, but how (aside from the > assortment of colours) do these $10 soft releases improve upon the > ones from Kalt or Hama which my local dealer sells for $1.95? It takes about 5 seconds after opening the package to appreciate why Tom's SoftReleases cost $10 and not $1.95. They fit perfectly on M cameras. And I mean *perfectly*. After you've mounted one, you'll forever wonder why Leica didn't supply them as standard. They offer much better control than the scalloped softreleases of most other manufacturers, because the gentle convex surface allows more finger positions. Strange as it may sound, using a softrelease makes it feel like the cameras been stripped, relubed and reassembled, it is so smooth. Well worth the price. You get Ergonomic, Functional, Beautiful, Durable, *and* Choice for just $10. That doesn't happen often. M. >>