Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/05

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Softy question
From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:05:50 -0700

You've got it right Simon... Your right thumb does exactly the same thing
when photographing vertically.

Jim


At 10:48 AM 10/5/00 -0400, Simon Stevens wrote:
>I just got a couple of Tom's Softies for my new M6 and older M4-P
>(thanks Tom). They seem very nice but I'm using them differently from
>the way I expected. Obviously, the "right" way is the way that works for
>me, but I'm interested to know how others do it. Basically, I'm laying
>my right index finger over the release with the tip roughly over the
>shutter speed dial. That way a very gentle and gradual downward pressure
>between the first and second joints triggers the shutter. I haven't
>conducted scientific experiments, but it seems like this gives
>noticeable less jar to the camera than using the tip of the index finger
>and in fact when I tried doing it that way, the softy didn't make any
>improvement at all for me. What do you think?
>
>Simon Stevens