Re: [Leica] no off switch on M6

["Joe Stephenson" <joeleica@email.msn.com>]

I don't know, Milos.
I use a different camera bag--really a Pelican case--and I have run the
battery down on several occasons. Most annoying. I have just learned to set
the shutter speed dial to B , or if I know I am taking the last photo before
putting the camera away, I don't wind the film forward. To me it's th emost
annoying Leica feature, and I wish there were a better solution.
Joe Stephenson
- -----Original Message-----
From: Milos Kocman <milos@bohem-net.cz>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Saturday, October 03, 1998 4:15 AM
Subject: [Leica] no off switch on M6

>Hi,
>
>Am prompted by a recent complaint about the cheap Yashica's absence of a
>power off switch to report all the hassle I am having with my M6 and Domke
>Camera Satchel. While I love that bag for neutral looks, compact size yet a
>great shape for carrying documents and lots of other things as well, I yet
>have to find a satisfactory position for the camera in it. Either it has to
>be uncocked (No, I don't want to play with the speed dial each time I put
>the camera away) or it has to go in with the camera back paralell to the
>bag back side, in which case the pressure on the camera+35/2+hood is such
>that the lens is often very sticky when I start using it again.
>
>Does anyone also use the same bag (they even feature a M6 in the Domke
>prospectus featuring this bag) and how do you deal with these problems?
>Obviously, if I didn't need to transport a cocked, hooded camera, there
>wouldn't be any problems.
>
>Ciao,
>
>Milos