Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I wanted to address your comment on the leather. It's not "mock" leather, >it's the actual skin of a large, flightless (and now, I presume, >skinless) bird! According to Leica, it's ostrich leather, which seems >rather bizzare. I don't know if the pattern of little embossed circles is >a natural characteristic of bird leather or is a cosmetic enhancement. > >- Paul > I thought I read that the covering is leather from a cow, embossed to look like ostrich. Regards, Ben W. Holmes Boulder, CO visit my web site at http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/ Leica serial numbers and Leica classifieds are no longer available http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/photodat.htm