Anybody here (or with an M7) using a soft release?

[Takkun]

I just got in my hot little hands my (third!! keep losing the damn things) Match Technical soft release. I've used these on a Nikon, a Bessa, and an X100. Does what it says on the can for my film M, but it seems to not only exaggerate the AE lock step on the M8, but also makes the shutter release a whole lot noisier.

How many of you here use soft releases with your AE Leicas, and are Tom's better in this regard? Or maybe I just have it screwed in too tightly.

 

[Robert Lai]

The one soft release I tried with the M7 never worked properly. It locked up the metering in some weird way.
The same soft release works fine on a Bessa R.

 

[Johann Espiritu]

My M7 was always picky about which soft release worked smoothly with it. Most felt "notchy". In the end, the only one that felt smooth was a Canon soft release that came with my F1N because it had a short screw.

 

[kshapero]

I use Tom A's soft and min soft releases on most all my cameras including a long gone M7. Never a problem and never lost one.

 

[Pioneer]

I use them and lose them so I have given up on them. Never got used to it on the M7 or M6 but I don't recall any issues. The M3 really doesn't need it IMO.

 

[Pablito]

All you have to do is coat the threads very lightly with white glue and let it dry. Then screw in to the camera. It says in place and the white glue does not mess up anything. This was Tom A' suggestion and it works perfectly Never lost one since I started doing this.

 

[Pioneer]

Thanks Pablito (and TomA) I'll have to give this a try the next time I pick one up. I do find them nice to use on the M9 since it seems to smooth out the notchy trigger a little bit.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

My Tom A soft releases survived a deployment to Iraq and years on both an M2 and M4. I used one on an M8 and M9 as well. Never has an Abrahamsson soft release fallen off one of my cameras. I've had three Match Technical releases, and all have fallen off. One is somewhere under Walnut street in Philadelphia as it fell into the storm sewer. The others I recovered and eventually sold one and gave the other away.

Phil Forrest

 

[SolaresLarrave]

I did manage to lose two of Tom's SRs, but I take the responsibility.

His wife did recommend to use some nail polish on the threads and put them in the camera. I did it with my M6TTL bodies and they have lasted there forever. I have another in my M4-2 that's stayed there, and one in my silver chrome M5. I have other SRs in other cameras (my black M5 has a decent knock-off and so has my M4-P). Oddly enough, the M3 just doesn't seem to need one, so it's naked.

But never has any of these things interfered with the way the camera works... That's odd... Just don't let Sherry Krauter know. She hates them.

 

[tedwhite]

I had one on an M6, another on a Bessa R, both from Tom A. Never had one fall off. Now I have one on an X100s. Don't know what kind it is but it's red and has a tiny lizard or gecko on it. I think I'll try some glue on the threads, although probably loctite will also work. The soft release on the M6 worked just fine.