Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] argh! stupid photographer!
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:46:38 -0500
References: <AANLkTi=wxdAUA=ki22hL5DjZ3BpZqXBTg-b=djiKPEEO@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimHteaRkCBFNQv9VqV10d-ES=FberJYq+mLJnZ+@mail.gmail.com>
 
Yeah, a piece of tape and almost anything that fits into that little
2x2mm hole to depress the switch should do the trick. Pencil eraser
chunk might work well, thinking about things that might be in a
photographer's bag.

Phil Forrest


On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:33:42 -0600
Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:29 PM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Am I the only one that has gone to a shoot and left the M9 baseplate
> > happily
> > sitting by the computer???
> > Good thing I always carry a backup camera.
> >
> > Is there any way to trick an M9 into working without the baseplate?
> >
> 
> 
> There's a microswitch next to the battery.  If you can figure a way
> to keep it down, the camera will fire,  That is on an M8.
> 
>
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