danielmk2
Member
Is it a very usual issue when using the tiny wide angle lenses？ I'm using a ZM Biogon 28, and I found it very easy to shot my left index finger. I'm holding the lens just like that in the Leica manual with a 50mm lens.
le vrai rdu
Well-known
Change the way you hold it.......
haempe
Well-known
Use a hood... avoid flare and fingers in the photo. 
danielmk2
Member
I'm really considering a hood. How do you guys hold the lens?
Glass Addict
Established
I hold with index and thumb only. That way, fingers cannot get in front of the lens.
And usually, wide angle lenses have tab, no? I use my index finger for the tab.
And usually, wide angle lenses have tab, no? I use my index finger for the tab.
Landshark
Well-known
Like a SLR, L. hand supporting the camera,and thumb and first finger at the lens.
Steve M.
Veteran
It's probably relatively inexpensive to have the offending finger removed surgically. Just make sure it's not the wrong one. You still need to be able to give what my father always called the Italian Salute.
Steve Bellayr
Veteran
You're lucky you were using a camera not a .357 Magnum.
EdwardKaraa
Well-known
I have the same problem, and went back to the Leica manual where I noticed the left hand supporting the camera is actually like a closed fist unlike an SLR where you support the camera with your open palm. the way Leica show it, it is next to impossible to get the finger in the shot.
AndySig
Established
This thread reminds me of a mate who had one of the Kodak instamatic cameras which took (if memory serves) a 110 cartridge: he once came back from holiday with 48 out of focus pictures of his left ear.
Wow, I never even would have thought to go to a manual to learn how to hold the camera in 2011. I always took it for granted, but I guess it can happen.
EdwardKaraa
Well-known
Well, it's not really that obvious if you're an SLR shooter, that you need to support an RF camera with a closed fist not with the palm. I'm sure you RF veterans may be amused at this, but I only got my first RF a couple of weeks ago, so I really got no clue.
kbg32
neo-romanticist
Trim off your finger.
I use my palm... never a fist. I'm not dissing you, I've had some photos with my finger in them or the strap in them. I was dissing the manual.
dct
perpetual amateur
I use the palm of my left hand too, to handle the RF body, but only my middle finger is stretched below the lens to the focus tab. The other fingers grasp RF bodies without strenght, only to get a firm shot. It works also for very compact fixed lens RF bodies.