Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] aluminium pods and cold hands (was:Leica lenses & Group Professionals Responsibility?)
From: "Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:36:05 -0800

Eric,

Try bicycle handlebar tape.

Bryan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] aluminium pods and cold hands (was:Leica lenses & Group
Professionals Responsibility?)


>At 06:57 AM 2/22/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>Harrison McClary wrote:
>>>...snip...
>>> Keeping  warm on  a  cold day with a long lens is almost impossible for
>>> me.  I  never learned to shoot with gloves.  The mono-pod is aluminum,
>>> camera  metal...all  very  cold. My hands  get  very cold.
>
>I have seen many people use different colored tapes (not a joke this time,
>guys) to wrap around metal tripod legs. Seems to work very well to protect
>hands from sticking, much more comfortable. I'm about to do it to my silver
>Tiltall. Just have to find the right tape.
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
>"People are inexterminable - like flies & bed-bugs. There will always be
>some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us." -
>     Robert Frost
>