Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Soft release
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:55:53 -0700
References: <200109211819.LAA13594@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

It has nothing to do with rough.

It has everything to do with being able to release the shutter with a 
simple squeeze of your hand. No finger poking down inside a raised rim. You 
don't use the end of your finger. You use the middle of your finger or 
thumb (between joints) to gently squeeze the release. It becomes second nature.

It's the only way to make sharp photographs in available darkness at 
v-e-r-y slow shutter speeds. Or any other time using very slow speeds.

Once seeing how easy it is to quietly release the shutter via soft release, 
one always carries spares in case the one in use gets lost. It is the kind 
of thing that makes Leica M photography a real joy.

Don't leave home without it.

Jim


At 02:37 PM 9/21/2001 -0500, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:

> > .....I lost my soft release and haven't replaced it yet. I probably need to
> >  buy a half dozen. They're great, but they seem to escape easily.
> >
> >  Dave
> >  .......
>
>I'm amazed at the number of posters using "soft releases".  To me the Leica
>M3 shutter button is already the world's best, and doesn't need anything
>extra.  I use M2,3,4's; does the M6 have a rougher feel?
>
>Alan M-R
>
>
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