Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M6 improvements?
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:49:57 -0700

I use an Abrahamsson winder which makes everything about holding an M6 easier.

Jim

At 09:38 AM 9/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I find this discussion most reassuring.  There are times when I look at a
>contact sheet that I find I do some one way and some the other.  I find it
>very difficult to focus in the "portrait" position, so I tend to focus first
>and then rotate the camera.  As a rule, I turn the camera so the shutter
>release is a the top, since that is the way I have always done it with every
>35mm camera I have owned (also a Bronica with winder).  Since I now have a
>soft release on both my M6s, I'll have to try your method.  Without a rapid
>winder, advancing the film must be more awkward though.
>
>Ken
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Jim Brick [SMTP:jim@brick.org]
>> Sent:	Tuesday, September 29, 1998 2:27 AM
>> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>> Subject:	Re: [Leica] M6 improvements?
>> 
>> With an Abrahamsson soft release under the middle of your thumb, the end
>> of
>> ...
>> Jim
>>