Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/12

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Thumbs up
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:29:51 +0530
References: <C97C673C-D4FA-4B57-844A-25BA797287D8@frozenlight.eu>

I have always had the hand grip for the Fuji X-Pro 1, which has made
it very usable from day one...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/849431-REG/Fujifilm_16240913_Hand_Grip_HG_XPro1_for.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:
> I think my Leica grip makes the M8 perfectly handholdable. Without it, I 
> found it awkward and slippery. With the Fuji X-Pro 1 there is a similar 
> problem: it is not easy to handle it with one hand, and to make it worse 
> there are all those little buttons to press by accident.
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> This week I took delivery of the Thumbs-Up for the Fuji, bought directly 
> from Tim Isaac. It is awesome! It has made my Fuji just as easy to handle 
> with one hand as my M8.
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> Caveats:
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> - if you are a lefty, I guess it will not work for you
> - if you use flash, it will not work for you either since the thingie 
> occupies the flash slot. But I consider flash the work of the devil so it 
> is no problem for me.
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> Highly recommended.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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> YNWA
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