Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 1:00 PM -0400 6/8/00, Dan Cardish wrote: >With all this talk about M grips, and what with the partial stock market >recovery and my recent birthday (don't ask), I decided to treat myself, >to....an M grip. > >In the store, the grip seemed to feel right, so after 2 or 3 minutes of >indecision, I went for it. The next day, I walked about town with it and >my 90/2. I started to regret my purchase. I found that my last two fingers >(is there a name for the finger right before the pinky?) kept trying to >slide under the camera, and they kept rubbing against the edge of the >grip's bottom. After awhile, they began to feel sore, and I honestly >thought that if I kept it up, they'd develop blisters. Yesterday, I >discovered that if I placed my middle finger on the top part of the grip, >the the final two fingers wrapped naturally around the bottom part of the >front of the grip, and my first finger (see, every finger seems to have a >name but for the one before the pinky) fell perfectly over the soft >release. This isn't a natural way for me to hold a camera, but it seems >comfortable and should be easy to get used to. > >Has anyone other grip user found similar problems/solutions? > >Dan C. No, I've always known what that finger before the pinky was called. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com