Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Christer, I use the soft release on both my M3 and my M6. Works great. Funny enough, I think that the smoothest shutter release button I have ever experienced is the one on my IIIf. Nathan Christer Almqvist wrote: > I would be interested to hear how you people press the M shutter to make sure there is as little camera movement as possible. > > Do you push the release button with the tip of your index finger? > > Or do you place your finger so that it extends slightly over and to the left of the release button (i.e. with the button just underneath the midpoint between the first and second section of the finger) and then release by straightening the finger? (This was the method proposed in the manual for the old Contax M cameras in the sixties.) > > Do you put the thumb below the advance lever and and press the lever up to counteract the downward pressure on the release button? > -- > christer almqvist > eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 > 14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58 - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo site: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/