Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On May 26, 2006, at 7:51 AM, manolito@videotron.ca wrote: > 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! Emanuel... can I have a few of the surplus softies to put on my cameras that I don't use? Steve > 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