Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Glad you liked that one. Those guys were a lot of fun. On the soft release buttons, I do find mine useful. Certainly not everyone likes them. 2 variants, dished or domed, dependant on whether you depress the release with your finger tip or the joint of your finger. The M7 and M8 have a staged release, different to your earlier cameras. Meter on---exposure lock----release. I often find exposure lock useful. I feel that point of the movement distinctly, even with the soft release. The dome helps me to reduce the camera movement on release and works better for me curling my finger joint over the (now higher) release button. I'll take every assistance to reduce camera movement I can get. To use the firearms analogy you getter a better surprise break on the trigger. Apart from the stages (that you don't have) you are instinctively doing the same thing by feeling the surround as you take up the pressure on your shutter release. 2009/3/24 Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> > Mon, 23 Mar 2009 : Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>included: > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/br/38Ad.jpg.html> > ============================================= > This is a priceless shot! I love it. > > > About this: <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/br/stack.jpg.html> > > I just don't get it - Leica M's have the best, softest, most predictable > shutter release ever made, so > I don't see the point of those "soft-release" gadgets. I use the feel of > the dished-in shutter surround > to know exactly where I can hold the button just on the edge of firing; > then a micro-press sets it off. > When I tried one of those attachments the shutter would go off > unpredictably since there was no gauge > of how far I was pressing, and I thus the camera might not have been as > steady as it should have been. > > But as they say, YMMV. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff 'Life's too short for mediocre glass' http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman