Re: [Leica] LUG: Your Softie

["Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>]

> Victor:
>
> Victor wrote about taking pictures of the inside of his camera bag because
> of Tom's Softie (the blessing & the curse).>>>>>

Chris Quinn wrote:
>>> Go buy an o-ring that's big enough to reach from the right split-ring
> (connecting your strap to your strap-lug), and put it on the split-ring.
> When not using the camera, stretch it around & under the Softie, and it
will
> keep it from taking pictures (Lutz, what's your link to this image?); the
> o-ring I found will not prevent the meter from engaging, hence, my
solution:<<<<

Hi Chris,
Gee that seems like an awful lot of work just to save one frame of film. ;-)
Besides just before you put the camera in the bag shoot the frame, quite
often it becomes a quite meaningful image, don't re-cock / advance the film!
Place camera in bag!  No more wasted inside the bag images.

It's like KISS!  Keep it simple stupid! ;-)
ted

Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Quinn" <cquinn@mail.sjcsf.edu>
To: <photvictor@hotmail.com>
Cc: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: [Leica] LUG: Your Softie


>
>
> I've got the softie on my M6TTL, and have found two solutions: one mine,
one
> Lutz Konermann's (of Sling, Slide & Shade fame). Lutz' is easier, mine
will
> prevent the softie from even turning on the meter. Lutz' first:
>
>
> Unfortunately, it involves a toilet-bowl washer, which will cause
> heart-failure in certain LUGnuts. I use a new one, if that makes you feel
> better. Buy some of those toilet bowl washers which are the black rubber
> jobbies. They're a little over an inch in diameter with something like a
> 1/4" hole in the center. They're made of three layers of rubber separated
by
> two layers of reinforcing fabric mesh. By itself, it's too thick to fit
> under the softie. If you cut it like a bagel (without the usual flesh
wounds
> suffered by bagel cutters) along one layer of the fabric so that it's now
> 2/3s the original thickness, it's thick enough to prevent photos, but too
> thin to prevent the meter being activated (actually, you just have to get
> the cut started. Once you can get a grip on the two layers, you can tear
it
> apart). So my final one is a compromise, in which I make two parallel cuts
> through the first layer of rubber, one on either side of the center hole.
I
> then do two bagel cuts, to remove those two nearly-semi-circular pieces,
> leaving two funny barrow-like mounds extending sideways from the center
> hole. Is this making any sense? Great. You, and this is the final step in
> the production, cut a little pie-slice out of the now-thinned portion of
one
> side of the ring, and slip it (the TBW with barrows, not the little slice)
> under your softie. It's going to be a little tight, but it's tough enough
to
> keep the meter from activating.
>
> A great compromise here is to use that now useless o-ring to make a hanger
> for the incomparable Toilet Bowl Washer TTL Battery Saver, so that when
you
> pull it off, it won't bounce off the walkway and disappear down into
Paris.
> (It will, in fact, slip quickly onto the X-sync cover on the back of the
> camera, if you haven't lost that yet, but won't stay on for long. The
other
> best option is to pull it off and stick it in your pocket.)
>
> I sent one to Tom Abrahamsson, but he got in trouble with Canadian Customs
> for importing an product which Canadians make better in Cananda. Must've
> been a Midland Custom's officer. Did you ever get it back, Tom?
>
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