Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just took the softie off my M7 for the same reason. No sense tempting fate again. >Eric Korenman wrote: > >> >> Interesting - I think I jammed mine when I advanced while pressing >> slightly on the softie release. >> >> Could the softie be a potential problem facilitating pressing >> while advancing? >> > >Indeed I also found that a Softie increased the chances of the >advance-release linkage getting fouled when shooting quickly. No >good reason why this should happen, but it did, with me, enough, and >so now I have a collection of unused Softies in various colours! A >man has got to have a hobby. The Leica M release is soft enough as >it is, anyway. > >But I think too the M7 on-off switch with release lock is not as >elegantly done as it should have been and, for that reason, I have >given up on the M7 too. Last thing I want is a locked Leica shutter >release button, and that was happening, now and then, messing up the >advantage of having AE on demand. No problems whatsoever shooting >with my unadorned MPs. KISS, as Ted would say. > >Emanuel > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick