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 ----- Original Message ----- 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 > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ >-- Regards YXAndy ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/