Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This sounds like something that can be experimented on easily. Approximately where do they put these bumpers? I think the M body design is the cat's meow. With the digital M, they could have maintained the body thickness if they push the lens mount out a little, like a SLR. I don't mind the body thickness though. I don't find it necessary to change it - except for the grip problem. I wouldn't mind a RD-1 like solution with a traditional rewind lever. Heck, manual wind the camera is fine with me. BTW, I shoot left eye ~30% of the time (I am also a left hand mouser...) Barring that, a small grip on the front, ala XPan and a zillion other small cameras would be just fine too. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > I know of a couple of people who use adhesive backed small rubber bumpers > such as feet for chairs and the like instead of fitting a ThumbsUp. I like > the feel of mine personally. I don't carry my camera on a neck strap so > maybe that is one reason I have never been TU-poked. Lefties on the other > hand are long used to having to bend our physiognomy to a right eyed world. > In a pre-digital M world you could easily have your right eye poked by that > protruding film advance lever. I seem to have trained that out of myself by > the M8. > > On the form factor there are some folks in the L Camera Forum too who > believe that the M body should be completely redesigned. Personally I think > that it would be a mistake for Leica to change the form factor at all in > the > market. Ask Olympus for example when they started into dSLRs with a clean > slate and no film hangovers. Look what their cameras look like now. That is > what customers tastes reflect. That is no cmoment on utility and design, > only on what is successful in the market place. > Look how the dSLR has evolved and compare it to what Leica Camera has done > with a 24x36 sensor in it. Something can be said for as little change as > possible in the form factor. > > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/09/page/3/ > > > Just my two classically inclined purist two cents. > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 16 August 2010 12:22, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I gave my thumbs up away for the same reason. Just learned to hold my > > thumb against the back of the camera. The more I think about it, the > > more there are too many stupid hangovers in the M8 and M9 from the M3 > > design that were necessitated by film without adding more. > > > > Marty > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:15 AM, J. Newell <john.o.newell at > > comcast.net> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Never noticed. Being poked by my Thumbs Up, that is. ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > Seriously. > > > > > > > > > > > > John Newell > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > > > From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> > > > To: "Leica Users Group" <> > > > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:14:23 PM > > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Alternative to Thumbs-up? > > > > > > I've never even noticed it. Maybe having boobs is an advantage! > > > > > > Tina > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Richard Man <richard at > > > imagecraft.com> > > wrote: > > > > > >> OK, I like the TU a lot, it helps to stabilize the camera etc., except > > for > > >> one thing. > > >> > > >> When I am hanging the camera on my neck, it pokes at me. Short > duration > > is > > >> not so bad, but it's really a pain in the side, literally. > > >> > > >> Are there alternatives? Does it not bother other people? > > >> > > >> Thanks. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > > >> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > > >> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > > >> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > > previous > > >> replies in your msgs. ] > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Leica Users Group. > > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > > > www.tinamanley.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]