Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK...I wasn't gonna post again today, but I've got to say that $10 for an accessory as great as the softie is for a camera system that usually costs at least $2k is a frequin' bargain. (no affiliation with TA, just love the softies...which are now on my minolta SLRs as I don't have an M any more.) Michael At 06:28 PM 3/13/01 -0500, you wrote: > I wish that the alloy used was cheap. It is a certified areospace alloy > that >costs about US$ 15/kg and after that it is run on an automated turning center >that costs about $200/hour to operate. I dont know if you know anything about >machining, but the Softrelease is done in a single pass through the machining >center and the program for running it, boggles the mind! Several people have >said the same thing and gone to machinists to try to have the Softies >duplicated. In all cases they have been told 'Can't even run them for $10 >each". There are plenty of Softreleases available in "cheap" aluminium but >they suffer from one major problem. The threads are pressed in to the metal >and they often break off in the cable release thread of the camera. Simple >design is not necessarily cheap and high quality material never is! >Tom A