Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] My new M Grip
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:30:40 -0700

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.

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