Why no horizontal trigger winders for Leica or Voigtlander?

Why has noone produced a horizontal trigger winder like the Ricoh

500s?<br>

 

I picked up and old 500 for <30USD and I love the horizontal trigger

winder. <br><br>

 

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All "normal 35 mm camera-"winders/levers I have seen, are horizontal! (except the Werra e.a.)

Because Rube Goldberg wasn't around to design it for Leica.

 

--Mitch/Bangkok

Why are you not counting Tom's Rapidwinder as a horizontal trigger winder? Or the Leicavit? They are the first thing I thought of when you said "horizontal trigger winder."

If you are not familiar with the Rapidwinder, check this <a href="http://www.rapidwinder.com/">LINK</a>

I'll have to check these out, thanks!

I must be missing something, as I can't imagine how that would be better than a standard, top mounted, advance lever.

A winder with a vertical trigger, like the Leicavit, allows for slightly faster sequence shooting and much faster left-eye shooting, since you don't have to take the camera away from the eye to wind on.

 

But a horizontal trigger...well, I've never used one, but it looks fairly awkward. Bart, could you give a little description of it in use?

 

Thanks.

I don't have to keep pulling my eye away from viewfinder.

 

Also, I'm left handed.

The one on my Ricoh is basically a mirror of the top winder on the bottom of the camera.

 

I just thought it was brilliant that I didn't have to pull my eye away from the finder to dodge my thumb. I wind with my middle finger and focus with my index finger on the tab.

 

Also, since I'm left handed, I tend to get distracted when I do stuff with my right hand, since I have to think about it more.

Now that I've seen the leicavit and the rapidwinder, It does seems that the translation of the vertical action to horizontal winding mechanism mean that the winder has to be thicker than if the motion remainged horizontal throughout the drive mechanism.

 

It looks like a horizontal winding mechanism could be thinner, if not nearly as thin as a stock base plate (if you care about such things)

I meant to say thinner than a Leicavit or Rapidwinder