[Leica] the Rose on/off switch

[aaron.sandler at duke.edu (Aaron Sandler)]

I suspect we each have slightly different styles that mean that one 
person's ideal is another person's "are you kidding me?"

I never had a problem with the lever popping out accidentally, but I am 
slightly annoyed by having to remember to spin the dial.  I keep the camera 
in my hands when I'm expecting to shoot, but sometimes when I'm not 
expecting it and I have the camera tucked away, I'll see something fleeting 
that I want to snap very quickly and I'd like to be able to pull the camera 
out to my eye, flick the aperture or shutter speed a stop or two and 
shoot.  With the thing on "off" I inevitably have to look down to get the 
shutter speed in the reasonable range first.

Plus I haven't fully trained myself to avoid winding on before putting the 
camera away, so my softie gives me more blank frames than I'd like.

Your mileage obviously does vary.  ;)

Whatever...I still like my camera!

-Aaron

At 03:52 PM 4/21/2004, BD wrote:
>The problem with the 'pull the advance lever out slightly' on-off switch
>is that it's awfully easy for the lever to be pushed out -  in the bag
>or on the shoulder. How hard is it to spin the shutter speed dial to OFF
>on the TTL, or B on the M6? And if there's that kind of switch, and no
>lock that keeps the shutter release from being pushed, you can't end up
>with the kind of disaster Ted encountered where some Cro-Magnon airlines
>security dolt forces the shutter release down past a 'lock.'
>
>B. D.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Aaron Sandler
>Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:51 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] the Rose on/off switch
>
>
>At 03:28 PM 4/21/2004, Gene wrote:
> >I would think the M6 users would have the same problem.  Also if you
> >put the camera away for some period of time, your exposure would almost
>
> >surely change as the light level will change, so why not just turn the
> >camera off? the amount of time it takes to check exposure after turning
>
> >the camera on is negligible and since you would have to adjust exposure
>
> >anyway after a period of off time, you loose no time prior to shooting
> >in this situation.
>
>For some reason I'm in the mood to nitpick today...
>
>The reason this annoys me on my M6TTL is that turning the shutter speed
>to
>"Off" is one extra thing to have to do rather than just jamming the
>camera
>in my bag/pocket/whatever.  Sure, it's not _that_ big a deal, but
>ideally I
>would prefer a combination on/off AND shutter lock like the one on the
>Nikon FM2 where you pull the advance lever out slightly to turn the
>camera
>on.  I find that I do this anyway out of habit, so it'd be perfect for
>me.