Re: [Leica] LUG: Your Softie

[Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>]

Also, consider removing the softie.

Ted Grant wrote:

> > Victor:
> >
> > Victor wrote about taking pictures of the inside of his camera bag because
> > of Tom's Softie (the blessing & the curse).>>>>>
>
> Chris Quinn wrote:
> >>> Go buy an o-ring that's big enough to reach from the right split-ring
> > (connecting your strap to your strap-lug), and put it on the split-ring.
> > When not using the camera, stretch it around & under the Softie, and it
> will
> > keep it from taking pictures (Lutz, what's your link to this image?); the
> > o-ring I found will not prevent the meter from engaging, hence, my
> solution:<<<<
>
> Hi Chris,
> Gee that seems like an awful lot of work just to save one frame of film. ;-)
> Besides just before you put the camera in the bag shoot the frame, quite
> often it becomes a quite meaningful image, don't re-cock / advance the film!
> Place camera in bag!  No more wasted inside the bag images.
>
> It's like KISS!  Keep it simple stupid! ;-)
> ted
>
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Quinn" <cquinn@mail.sjcsf.edu>
> To: <photvictor@hotmail.com>
> Cc: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:43 PM
> Subject: [Leica] LUG: Your Softie
>
> >
> >
> > I've got the softie on my M6TTL, and have found two solutions: one mine,
> one
> > Lutz Konermann's (of Sling, Slide & Shade fame). Lutz' is easier, mine
> will
> > prevent the softie from even turning on the meter. Lutz' first:
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, it involves a toilet-bowl washer, which will cause
> > heart-failure in certain LUGnuts. I use a new one, if that makes you feel
> > better. Buy some of those toilet bowl washers which are the black rubber
> > jobbies. They're a little over an inch in diameter with something like a
> > 1/4" hole in the center. They're made of three layers of rubber separated
> by
> > two layers of reinforcing fabric mesh. By itself, it's too thick to fit
> > under the softie. If you cut it like a bagel (without the usual flesh
> wounds
> > suffered by bagel cutters) along one layer of the fabric so that it's now
> > 2/3s the original thickness, it's thick enough to prevent photos, but too
> > thin to prevent the meter being activated (actually, you just have to get
> > the cut started. Once you can get a grip on the two layers, you can tear
> it
> > apart). So my final one is a compromise, in which I make two parallel cuts
> > through the first layer of rubber, one on either side of the center hole.
> I
> > then do two bagel cuts, to remove those two nearly-semi-circular pieces,
> > leaving two funny barrow-like mounds extending sideways from the center
> > hole. Is this making any sense? Great. You, and this is the final step in
> > the production, cut a little pie-slice out of the now-thinned portion of
> one
> > side of the ring, and slip it (the TBW with barrows, not the little slice)
> > under your softie. It's going to be a little tight, but it's tough enough
> to
> > keep the meter from activating.
> >
> > A great compromise here is to use that now useless o-ring to make a hanger
> > for the incomparable Toilet Bowl Washer TTL Battery Saver, so that when
> you
> > pull it off, it won't bounce off the walkway and disappear down into
> Paris.
> > (It will, in fact, slip quickly onto the X-sync cover on the back of the
> > camera, if you haven't lost that yet, but won't stay on for long. The
> other
> > best option is to pull it off and stick it in your pocket.)
> >
> > I sent one to Tom Abrahamsson, but he got in trouble with Canadian Customs
> > for importing an product which Canadians make better in Cananda. Must've
> > been a Midland Custom's officer. Did you ever get it back, Tom?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >