Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't have an R8 but I have tons of old Exaktas. The sloping sides make them impossible to hold securely with either hand unless I wrap my pinky and vice-pinky fingers around the rewind knob. My question is very simply, how do you hold on to the camera without the wedge slipping out of your hand? See Ya Javier Martin Howard wrote: > Nathan Wajsman jotted down the following: > > > The R8 is very much an acquired taste. Many people who just handle it in a > > store do not fully appreciate what a wonderful camera it is in actual > > shooting. If you have an opportunity to shoot a roll of film with it, I urge > > you to do so. > > > > I still think the R8 is the most ergonomic camera Leica has ever produced > (with the possible exception of the M4/classic M6). And I still think that > the one camera Leica should produce that they haven't is an R9 -- a fully > mechanical camera with the innards of the R6.2, light and flash metering of > the R8, in the R8 body shell. I'd sell a kidney to buy one. (Not telling > whose though ;) > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | Shit happens. > email: howard.390@osu.edu | > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com