Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/12

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Subject: [Leica] Rubber bands and Softies
From: Rob Schneider-Laura Tully <robslaurat@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:51:25 -0400

A great trick.  But now I have another problem.  I found nice, two-inch, red rubber bands to wrap around my straps and
Softies.  But after I put tape over the rubber bands (they're red, after all)  I can't get them around the Softies.
Suggestions?

Rob
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> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:23:31 -0400
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Calling all Bostonian LUGnuts (apathetic or otherwise)
>
> Yes...It was 97! in freaking Boston, but I was in NYC, where it was 94..but
> the air was totally unbreathable...
>
> And, yes, Tootsie is the confirmation giver..
>
> ON TOPIC...
>
> When I had dinner with the delightful Medley's during their recent and
> frenetic stay in Boston, David demonstrated the way to avoid wasting
> exposure after exposure by accidentally tripping the TA Softie: He places a
> large rubber band between the softie and the camera body...it works...
>
> I have, however, improved slightly on his "invention": Take a small, 2"
> long, rubber band, remove your camera strap, run it through the band, and
> reconnect the strap....When you're not shooting, slip one end of the rubber
> band around the softie, the other end remains around the strap...when you
> shoot, just flip the band off the softie and it hands on the strap....Always
> there...I had given up on using the softie because I found the accidental
> exposures so frustrating...now I am once again a happy Softie...user...
>
> That's the high-tech Leica fix for the day...