Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have come to see the lack of a power switch and release lock as a discipline rather than an omission. The camera gets wound on as it comes out of the bag (additional time to do this = 0.0 sec) already set to approximate exposure and somewhere near infinity. If the camera comes out of the bag and not used I was either too slow, or sloppy in my intention and visualisation. Of course it's not always that simple, sometimes you feel that somethings about to happen in a particular way that will make a photograph and then it doesn't. Then I use up a frame anyway to release the shutter and remind me later, when I look at the neg in the darkroom and scratch my head, to sharpen up and stop daydreaming! With a massive 36 frames on a roll, the wastage isn't relevant. Alex