Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/31

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Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Anyone using the Leica Handgrip M?
From: Borges & Marinho Fotografia <borges@marinho.com.br>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:17:48 -0300
References: <200005311716.NAA28450@pop0.harvard.net>

  Yes... but was the Handgrip who saved my Leica the last time that the 
wrist strap failed and my Leica Hit the concrete floor of a Parking Lot... 
no scratches on the M6, but I couldn't say the same about the grip...

  So use the Handgrip and the Neck Strap... Wrist Strap never more...

  Regards,

  Luiz Marinho
  Sao Paulo - Brasil

At 14:03 31/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Oh, please....Ever hear of a strap? Around the neck or wrapped around the
>wrist? People have been shooting with Leica Ms for a couple generations now,
>taking photos of the grandkids in the yard and the Viet Cong over running
>the Citadel at Hue, without using no steeenking screw-on "grips," and
>without dropping their cameras. If you're going to drop it, you're going to
>drop it...One of the great things about the M is how nicely in fits in the
>hand....
>
>B.een feeling D.efinitely C.urmudgeonly lately! ;-)
>
>

Replies: Reply from Bill Satterfield <cwsat@cyberhighway.net> (Re: [Leica] Anyone using the Leica Handgrip M?)
In reply to: Message from austin@darkroom.com (Re: RE: [Leica] Anyone using the Leica Handgrip M?)