Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/23

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Subject: [Leica] Report of M8 Base Failure
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Wed May 23 21:19:22 2007
References: <200705220144.l4M1i7Zf027318@server1.waverley.reid.org> <4654D595.3010408@concentric.net> <B75C93E2-A0E5-43BF-9F6C-BC996AAB4DE0@charter.net>
 
On 5/23/07, slobodan dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote:
>
> The mounting problems with this product are going from the ridiculous
> to the utterly devastating.
>
> S. Dimitrov
>
>

Most camera manuals caution against tripod mounting.  Some of my Pentax
cameras came with what I call tripod condoms,  a  little device that screwed
into the bottom thread, and then you mount the thing onto your tripod. To
keep a long tripod screw from raping the bottom of the camera.
-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA
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