Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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...