Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are right, of course. But the grip does not worsen the grip. But I still do think that that M series Leica has the best handling there is. Grip or no grip. All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 31. toukokuuta 2000 20:40 Aihe: RE: RE: [Leica] Anyone using the Leica Handgrip M? >Oh, please....Ever hear of a strap? Around the neck or wrapped around the >wrist? People have been shooting with Leica Ms for a couple generations now, >taking photos of the grandkids in the yard and the Viet Cong over running >the Citadel at Hue, without using no steeenking screw-on "grips," and >without dropping their cameras. If you're going to drop it, you're going to >drop it...One of the great things about the M is how nicely in fits in the >hand.... > >B.een feeling D.efinitely C.urmudgeonly lately! ;-) > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of >> austin@darkroom.com >> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:17 PM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Anyone using the Leica Handgrip M? >> >> >> > >> >Handgrip? On an M? Doesn't everyone know this? Place the thumb >> of your right >> >hand high on the camera back, where it can reach the advance >> lever; cradle >> >the right side of the body with your right palm and last two >> fingers; brace >> >the front of the right side of the body with your first two >> right fingers. >> >Cradle the left corner of the camera with the palm of your left hand, >> >leaving the first three fingers free for focusing and aperture >> control. Is >> >that the Leica grip everyone's asking about? :-) >> >> Yeah, right...if that's all you use to 'secure' your Leica...wait >> until someone bumps you, or you back into something and your >> Leica goes-a-tumbling-down...then it'll be the Leica 'slip' >> you'll be talking about for years to come! >> >