Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] nail-biting leica user
From: "Dante A. Stella" <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:18:03 -0400
References: <3.0.6.32.20010724184314.007a0590@hiwaay.net>

Maybe that thing flight attendants open soda cans with?

brad daly wrote:

> okay, so i bite my nails.  i've done it all my life, and i don't think
> there's any chance of me stopping.
>
> here's the problem: because my nails are so short, i can't flip out the
> little half-ring to release the bottom plate.  who's faced this dilemma
> before?  i'm thinking i can fashion a little tab out of duct tape (good
> alabamian that i am) so that i can pull the ring out, yet still fold it up
> flush with the bottom of the camera.
>
> or does leica make an adapter for peole like me, the
> obsessivecompulsivevitelmar or something like that?
>
> --brad
>
> --
> brad daly                         bwdaly@hiwaay.net
> photographs: http://home.hiwaay.net/~bwdaly
> "I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time."
>         --Alvin Straight
> "War, what is it good for?  It's good for business."
>         --Billy Bragg

In reply to: Message from brad daly <bwdaly@hiwaay.net> ([Leica] nail-biting leica user)