Re: COPY: Re: [Leica] two M cameras at once!

[Five Senses Productions <fls@home.com>]

So you have the 35 actually around your neck, but the others are just
hanging on your shoulder?  When you run, doesn't the strap on your
right shoulder slide off?
Do you leave the straps on the 35 and 50 long or short?  Where do they
reach you on the front of your body?
I will most likely carry one M6 with a 35 always attached and the other
with a 90 attached, and with a 50 in my pocket.  This way I have most things
covered....wide angle and tele.  I use the 35 most of the time is street
shooting,
but when I shoot models I use the 50 and 90 most of the time, with an
occasional 35 environmental portrait.
Have you ever seen anyone with a waist pack in front with M6s and lenses
in compartments that you reach into and pull out when you need them?
A Lowepro Sideline Shooter is big enough for 2 M6s and 2 lenses attached
and some film on each side.  This way you avoid straps and being obvious with
multiple cameras banging around.  I like to be discreet on the street and
catch
the moment or the subject in their action, completely unawares.

Francesco



>Francesco, I usually carry 2 and sometimes three bodies at the same time.
>Usually the body with the 35 around my neck, the 50 over the right shoulder
>and the wide angle (21/24 or 28) in the bag on the left shoulder ( with film
>etc). In the "good old days" I used to carry one shortstrapped around my neck
>with the 35, a second with longer straps and a 21 on it. This led to some
>severely deformed finders on the 21 ( physics come into play, what goes up,
>must come down and the M2 on the top would bounce around and land on the
>finder of the 21 at the downstroke). Several flattened 21 finders ( metal)
and
>some dented M2/M3 top plates was the result.
> It isn't to much trouble to swing the right shoulder body around and up to
>the eyes, just extend the strap long enough that the baseplate/winder bottom
>is slightly above your belt. That also gives you enough strap to wind around
>the wrist and elbow as an impromtu "stabilizer". Longer lenses are
trickier as
>they tend to be heavy and slam against the body if you have to jump or move
>fast.
> If you really want to see a master using multi M's, watch the movie
>"Woodstock", in one short segment it shows Jim Marshall ( rock photographer
>supreme) with five M bodies on him.
> Carrying M's without straps is tricky, sometimes you can get away with a
>wrist-strap but I found it useful only when you carry one M body and a 35 on
>it. Probably an aquired skill that I have yet to master. The key is to always
>have one body ready to shoot with, nothing worse than have to start fumble
>under a jacket or vest for a camera.
> Tom A
>