Re: hot shoe cover?

[John Munro]

Assuming the strap is around one's neck with a camera attached - if the cannister is taped right-side-up one must lift the camera strap (w/camera) up to make slack in the strap, then flip the cannister to remove the film cassette (this usually takes two hands, but then I'm the clumsy sort) - if the cannister is taped upside down the cassette will drop down or out after the lid is unscrewed without having to perform any strap & camera lifting (this usually takes one hand). 

Shel wrote:
Why?
Shel 


[Original Message]
From: John Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11/13/2004 10:40:11 AM
Subject: Re: hot shoe cover?
(Tape the cannisters upside down also....)
Shel wrote: 
A trick I learned from a couple of old pros many years ago, and something
 

I
doubt many people here would consider, but I'll mention it anyway: we'd
 

get
a Kodak film cannister or two (what are now considered to be the antique
 

or
vintage aluminum ones) with the screw on caps, and tape them to the thin
leather camera straps we used.