Re: Leica - starter camera

Jeffery Smith offered:
Subject: RE: Leica - starter camera


What keeps me from using the M3 much is really not the hassle of
loading. I'm left-eyed, and viewing through the rangefinder causes the
very hard metal film advance to gouge my eyeglasses. After ruining two
pair, I just stopped using the M3.<<<<<

Hi Jeffery,
Like you I'm left eyed, not much vision in my right eye at all. So for years I cursed the M cameras (actually I cursed having a bad eye!) as I always had to take camera away from my eye to advance, and sure enough, each time some special moment would happen and I'd miss it. :-(

Oh tried the Leica motor winders, I bought and sold three or four of them always on recommendation of someone at Leica telling me they had been improved and didn't clunk & thunk everytime I took a shot. However, not so they were all junk for a working photographer!

Then one day Tom Abrahamsson let me use his RapidWinder and it was a nirvana moment! :-)

And in a split second the M6 Leicas became the camera I'd always read about when used by a right eyed shooter. Since then my M's all have RapidWinders and work like a dream to the extent that if I require to shoot quickly, I can get 3 rapid frames off in one second! ;-) It takes a little practice but dang it's great when it's needed. :-)

Without question the RapidWinder is the answer for every left eyed M shooter as it creates a whole new way of using the camera and maintaining constant viewing of the subject through the viewfinder. No batteries, light in weight and silent in use. :-)

If you haven't tried it, I can only recommend it as the best thing that ever happened to an M Leica! :-) Well OK before anyone gets antsy.......... "best thing that ever happened to a Leica left eyed Leica shooter! ;-)

ted



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