[LRflex] Re: Leica R Camera Shake by Model

Depends on how heavy.  I wasn't talking 10 lbs.  Make the weight so you are 
holding it like a motor drive then the camera is sitting on the weight?

Dave
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From: "Andy Wagner" <yxandy2001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 7:54 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Leica R Camera Shake by Model


> Do you really want to hang a heavy weight from your baseplate? It's 
> designed to have weight on top not from the bottom.
> Dave Saalsaa <dsaalsaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  Dwight, adding to the mass 
> of the camera should help with the steadiness.
> Just duct tape a brick to your SL. No, not Jim Brick. That would be too
> much. Sorry Jim. ;-) You could make a lead weight with a 1/4 x 20 bolt
> for the tripod mount and see if it improves your steadiness.
>
> Dave
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> From: "Dwight L. Brown"
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:29 PM
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: Leica R Camera Shake by Model
>
>
>>I find that I like my Leicaflex SL, which is a different shape than almost
>> any other camera, I also hold my Canon EOS 1n well. I Do not understand
>> why
>> so many of the digital cameras have no body on the left side to grab on
>> to.
>> My 30D has some, but there could be more. The little P&S digi cams that
>> people like to hold at arms length using the screen to compose should be 
>> a
>> lot less steady than using whst ever rotten viewfinder it has. I wonder
>> if
>> I made a lead weight with a 1/4 20 thread, it would make any camera (as
>> long
>> as the tripod socket is centered) steadier. I think I remember a sort of
>> a
>> gyroscope thing that could be used in a camera as well.
>>
>>
>> Dwight
>>
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