Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, Try bicycle handlebar tape. Bryan - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 8:00 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] aluminium pods and cold hands (was:Leica lenses & Group Professionals Responsibility?) >At 06:57 AM 2/22/99 +0100, you wrote: >>Harrison McClary wrote: >>>...snip... >>> Keeping warm on a cold day with a long lens is almost impossible for >>> me. I never learned to shoot with gloves. The mono-pod is aluminum, >>> camera metal...all very cold. My hands get very cold. > >I have seen many people use different colored tapes (not a joke this time, >guys) to wrap around metal tripod legs. Seems to work very well to protect >hands from sticking, much more comfortable. I'm about to do it to my silver >Tiltall. Just have to find the right tape. > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >"People are inexterminable - like flies & bed-bugs. There will always be >some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us." - > Robert Frost >