Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] Help!
From: telyt at telus.net (David Young)
Date: Thu Apr 26 16:37:33 2007
References: <042620072316.13551.463132AF000F0AE4000034EF219791332903010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com>

At 26/04/2007, you wrote:
>well tuesday night in a rain storm i managed to destroy my right 
>shutter operating wrist.  I am now trying to figure out how to 
>operate my leicas with only my left hand.  yes i am right handed and 
>this is going to be hell.  ;-)  i am going to have to figure out how 
>to avoid camera withdrawell.  i realize using a tripod with an M is 
>sacrillege, but maybe this is an allowable transgression.  i will 
>have the cast on for the next 10 weeks.  of course anna and my wife 
>are smiling at their good fortune of not having me with the m in my 
>hand all the time now.  any suggestions on how to do this without 
>committing all the M transgressions?  got home from the hospital 
>this afternoon, and the M8 is calling me - oh the shame of it all.
>
>gene


Ouch!

Have you thought of a monopod and a short cable release in your left hand?

Good luck!

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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt
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