Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]RP Johnson jotted down the following: > After the long, sometimes serious, thread on Martin's quest for a "no-hands" > or "one-hand" timer, he said that he had found what he was looking for. Did > I miss the message as to what he finally came up with? Well, I first bought an alarm clock with a white dial and a second hand from ACE Hardware. It ticks rather loudly, so by placing it on a hard surface (that amplified the ticks even more) I could count ticks and that worked rather well. I even managed to dodge and burn using that technique. Then, a LUGGER answered my request for a simple timer with an offer I couldn't refuse: An old EPOI enlarger timer for $30. I bought it and am very pleased with it. It even has fancy things like an outlet for the safelight -- which gets automatically switched off when the focus is on or when the timer is running. It's not digital, but for $30, I'm not about to complain. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | "Close doesn't shoot any rabbit" email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Swedish idiom www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------