[Leica] Black Paint M cameras

[vick.ko at sympatico.ca (vick.ko@sympatico.ca)]

Excellent decision, you will learn lots.

You might be able to find cheap examples of black painted Leica items such 
as MR meters or LTM cameras, to see how hard the paint is.  

There are other examples of black cameras to look at, to gauge the hardness 
of black paint.

The challenge is that you will be doing your first camera, where a company 
(even a small one like Leica) will pay for months (maybe years) of R&D and 
have resources to research and refine the metal preparation processes, paint 
and primer selections, etc, to produce their commercial product.

You have your own time, energy, and limited access to supplies, to create 
your black covering.  

I've done it, learned lots, and every time I paint a camera, I get better at 
it.

Good luck, and show us the results.

Vick

> 
> From: feli <feli2@earthlink.net>
> Date: 2005/09/16 Fri PM 01:23:22 EST
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Black Paint M cameras
> 
> Following Craig Zeni's lead, I have decided to strip and paint one of  
> my M4
> cameras black.
> 
> Any other hints?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Feli