Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] Help!
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Thu Apr 26 16:38:01 2007
References: <042620072316.13551.463132AF000F0AE4000034EF219791332903010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com>

-monopod held in left

or

-left hand under camera and focusing, right finger or thumb to  
release shutter and wind

or

-beanbag to support camera and operate with left

-a friend to load camera

Heck, you can work around this. wiping may be a problem;^)

ric


On Apr 26, 2007, at 7:16 PM, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote:

> well tuesday night in a rain storm i managed to destroy my right  
> shutter operating wrist.  I am now trying to figure out how to  
> operate my leicas with only my left hand.  yes i am right handed  
> and this is going to be hell.  ;-)  i am going to have to figure  
> out how to avoid camera withdrawell.  i realize using a tripod with  
> an M is sacrillege, but maybe this is an allowable transgression.   
> i will have the cast on for the next 10 weeks.  of course anna and  
> my wife are smiling at their good fortune of not having me with the  
> m in my hand all the time now.  any suggestions on how to do this  
> without committing all the M transgressions?  got home from the  
> hospital this afternoon, and the M8 is calling me - oh the shame of  
> it all.
>
> gene
>
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