One way to protect the baseplate of the M8 is to just replace it with
the hand grip version.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 11/05/2009, at 2:53 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> We went for a bicycle ride along the beach yesterday. As always on
> those occasions, the M8 was around my neck with the widest lens I own
> mounted on it (the 18mm Zeiss), set for f8 and hyperfocal distance. I
> would photograph while riding. I have done this on several earlier
> occasions. However, yesterday I discovered a couple of things:
>
> - when you brake hard with just the left hand on the handlebar, the
> results are not good ;-)
> - the M8 is as sturdy as earlier M cameras (I did protect it when
> going down, but the baseplate hit the bicycle and the ground, albeit
> not that hard)
> - road rash hurts but is curable with single malt
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#533527099_VbMuz-O-LB
>
> When we came home, I put the 75mm on the M8, set it at f2.5 and took
> some close-ups of my medicine cabinet (aka the rack of single malts in
> our living room) to make sure the rangefinder was not knocked out of
> alignment. It was fine.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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