In the FWIW Dept, I'm a left eye shooter and a wearer of eye glasses. I figured out a way to manually advance the film without removing my eye from the finder. On cameras where the film advance lever ratchets (MX, LX, Spotmatics,and others I'm sure)) I just push the lever as far out as possible for the first exposure, and don't let it return. When it's time for the next exposure I just let the lever come back a little and rapidly ratchet it on. It's really quite simple, and, with practice, a lot faster than removing the camera from your eye, advancing the film, and bringing the camera back up to shooting position.
> John Francis wrote: > > > > That's the primary reason why I have winders for my M-bodies; > > not only am I left-eyed, I also wear glasses, making it even > > more difficult to advance the film manually. And Paul responded: > Ditto. I shot without winders for many years, using my right eye to > focus. But as I aged, my right eye weakened became farsighted while my > left remained reasonably neutral. After learning to focus with my left > eye, I quickly became frustrated with the manual advance lever and > motorized most of my 35mm cameras. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
