Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The thumbs up saves my little pinky, which without it aches terribly with lenses any heavier than the 28 summarit. My one is an early one and does not protrude far enough to notice it on my chest. Cheers Alastair > Do note that I am one of the few that couldn't stand the thumbs up after > 4-5 > months. It just pokes at my body when I have the camera hanging off my > neck. It does work great otherwise and I am definitely in the small > minority that has this problem. > On Oct 23, 2010 4:36 PM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: >> Thanks, Geoff. >> >> I had seen the Thumbs Up! in the past and had forgotten all about it. I > looked at the website after Hank K sent me the same suggestion. I think > that > it plus a wrist strap as you suggest might serve my purposes well. >> >> ?howard >> >> On Oct 23, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> >>> Howard I have the RRS baseplate and L bracket. I didn't bother with the >>> grip. It looks a little bulky but then I have not actually handled one > and >>> as Sonny commented it looks a little slick to hold too. The L bracket >>> is >>> very useful if you put your camera on a tripod a lot (close ups, > panoramas) >>> which I do. You can still get the Leica grip which is the base plate >>> with >>> vertical extension. The M8 one fits too. Not very elegant but if you >>> can >>> pick one up for reasonable money maybe worth a look. Hint, you can put >>> a >>> little bi-directional quick release plate on that too for tripod, if >>> wanted. >>> Another option is that you can get half cases with grips of different > sizes >>> from small bulge to full SLR type grip. Those make a large difference >>> for >>> portrait orientation (Luigi, A&A, Mr Zhou) if that suits you. I always > have >>> a wrist strap on my camera as it is generally in a bag if not in my >>> hand. >>> Oh, get a Thumbs Up! Tina for example swears by them and even mere >>> mortal >>> photogs like me find them very helpful. That's enough gadgets to keep >>> you >>> thinking and fiddling for a while! >>> Cheers >>> Geoff >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >