Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spent Thanksgiving w/ my girlfriends family in Connecticut. We drove up to Vermont to visit one her college friends with whom she often performed music (violin and piano). They struck up an impromptu recital. I asked whether they'd like some "pitures" or not. Shot 36 frames with a Rapidwinder on an M4-P w/ 35/1.4. Quiet, fast: wind with the palm horizontally, the thumb vertically. Switched to the M-3 and a 50/1. Cooler *big* vf, but oh, so slow to wind . The Rapidwinder is a very cool thing. For better or worse it changes the way I shoot in certain circumstances. Most interesting, though, is that I've got motor advance of something like 6 frames per second on the G2, and I never use it. There's something about being able to control the interval and still wind quickly that's neat. Chandos At 05:04 PM 11/30/98 -0800, you wrote: >Forget about the M-Grip. Tom Abrahamsson's Rapid Winder is so cool, you >will wonder how you ever took photographs without it. Tom's rapid winder >and Tom's soft release make "M" life super easy.