Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I learned how to hold a leica from the excellent book 'the other side of the camera', which is a collection of portraits of all my fave photographers including Winogrand, Frank, Callaghan, etc etc etc. Some of the best photos are of GW, who has the thin leica strap wrapped around his palm. If you do this, as I do now, you have the camera absolutely securely anchored, and can shoot in a whole variety of different handholds, but can unattach and go to a round-the-neck thing in a moment. It doesn't work with the current Leica strap with the neck protector thing...you have to poke around in camera stores for something that works. But when it works... - -- Johnny Deadman "The unfinished is nothing" - Frederick Amiel