[Leica] OT: Thumbs up

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I use Thumbs Up but have never had a problem with the flash shoe being
occupied because I never, ever use flash.  I have used it when I had to
with my Canon DSLRs.  Never with Leica M's or R's.

Tina


On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> I'm one of the original Thumbs-Up customers. When I went over to Tim's
> Isaac's house here in the Seattle area to pick mine up, I asked him about
> an active hot-shoe version.
>
> Tim told me that the problem is product liability. If he were to make a
> version with hot shoe contacts, he could be liable for people damaging
> their cameras because they used high-voltage flashes on a camera that
> couldn't take it. Or for other electronic mishaps that could occur because
> of mix-n-match camera-flash combinations. Add the fact that he sells to
> many countries with as many different laws, the safest thing to do was just
> not do it.
>
> Flash is against my religion except when it isn't. I only occasionally use
> bounce flash or fill flash. So when I do, I just take the Thumbs-Up off.
>  For the more frequent flash user, there's the Thumbie, which sticks on and
> leaves the flash free. Or cheap, readily available stick-on rubber feet.
>
> --Peter
>
>
>
> Bill Pearce wrote:
> > There has always been an attitude on the part of many, not generally
> held by
> > working pros, that flash is not to be ever ever ever used with a Leica.
> > Well, not as a needless crutch, but still, I can have it's place, but I
> > think that attitude is responsible for the lack of PC connections on
> modern
> > Leicas and hotshoes on thumbs up.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Herbert Kanner
> > Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 4:12 PM
> > To: Leica Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Thumbs up
> >
> > "But I consider flash the work of the devil so it is no problem for me."
> >
> > Fully agree, with one exception. I once used bounce flash, aimed
> essentially
> > at the ceiling, in a room with white walls and ceiling and Kodachrome in
> my
> > M6 (about which I've got to get off my lazy butt and sell). This would
> still
> > be valid today with the added degree of freedom that LR and it's
> relatives
> > would permit the use of non-white walls.
> >
> >
> > Herbert Kanner
> > kanner at acm.org
>
> > 650-326-8204
> >
> > Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I think my Leica grip makes the M8 perfectly handholdable. Without it,
> I
> > > found it awkward and slippery. With the Fuji X-Pro 1 there is a similar
>
>
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