Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Calling all Bostonian LUGnuts (apathetic or otherwise)
From: kabob@tiac.net (Bob Keene/Karen Shehade)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:34:32 -0400

What a great reference this list is!!! I'm gonna go out and put a rubber on
my "M6-softie" (geez- if THAT isn't enough to get some of you guys going!)

Great idea!

Bob Keene
"Everybody's Pal"
(but not 'everyone' is "everybody"...)


>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:23:31 -0400
>From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Calling all Bostonian LUGnuts (apathetic or otherwise)
>
>Yes...It was 97! in freaking Boston, but I was in NYC, where it was 94..but
>the air was totally unbreathable...
>
>And, yes, Tootsie is the confirmation giver..
>
>ON TOPIC...
>
>When I had dinner with the delightful Medley's during their recent and
>frenetic stay in Boston, David demonstrated the way to avoid wasting
>exposure after exposure by accidentally tripping the TA Softie: He places a
>large rubber band between the softie and the camera body...it works...
>
>I have, however, improved slightly on his "invention": Take a small, 2"
>long, rubber band, remove your camera strap, run it through the band, and
>reconnect the strap....When you're not shooting, slip one end of the rubber
>band around the softie, the other end remains around the strap...when you
>shoot, just flip the band off the softie and it hands on the strap....Always
>there...I had given up on using the softie because I found the accidental
>exposures so frustrating...now I am once again a happy Softie...user...
>
>That's the high-tech Leica fix for the day...