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Subject: [Leica] How to protect the M8
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Thu Feb 5 18:30:33 2009
References: <200902042301.n14N0AM2045023@server1.waverley.reid.org> <C5AFAC8E.455E%manolito@videotron.ca>

 
Don't you grip it by the leatherette? ?I would find any camera hard to hold 
by just handling it by the thin chrome/black metal strip at the top.


Gene


? -------------- Original message from EPL <manolito@videotron.ca>: 
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> I find the silver chrome M8 particularly hard to grip. Without the film M's
> advance lever, that slippery chrome top cover doesn't allow much purchase
> with just the right hand thumb pressed against it, especially if one needs
> the thumb sometimes to push buttons on the back.
> 
> IMHO the M8 really needs something added to it (an accessory grip or even a
> piece of textured tape) so that it can be held securely.
> 
> Emanuel
> 
> 
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