Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] how to be distreet?
From: "jahudson" <jahudson@direct.ca>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 20:41:27 -0700

- ----- Original Message -----
From: 4season <4season@boulder.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] how to be distreet?


>
> -----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
>
just playing the devil's advocate for a moment ....... What would you do if
the subject just punched you in the face at you brought the M6 up into his
face or dashed your camera to the ground. Pointing your camera at someone's
face at short range uninvited is just plain ill manners.

jh