Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]4season wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Chong <ericssan@yahoo.com> > >Now.. I'm > >getting worried about the flashiness of M6. How can I hide it properly > >and protect M6 when travelling? How do u all keep ur M gear with u > >while u travel around and managed to pull out M* out to shoot? > > I generally hold it in my right hand, ready to be fired and rewound at a > moment's notice, more or less prefocused according to my situation. It's > uncapped, but pointed downwards, partly to protect the optics from the > elements, but this also serves to present passers-by with only the blank M6 > top. Hardly anyone seems to care about the camera, and the few exceptions > seem themselves to be Leicaphiles. It does not seem to matter that mine is > chrome, with a red dot on the front. > > Jeff Apparently, this right-handed, strap wrapped technique was how Robert Frank worked. Pre-set. Prefocused. Camera discreetly out of sight until moment of usage. Sometimes, I'll even walked with my hands clasped behind my back, the left hand around the camera which is held in my right as described above. The only problem I have with this is that it makes it a little difficult to use my Rapidwinder. - -- Carl Socolow http://members.tripod.com/SocPhoto/