Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/29
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At 8:05 PM -0800 1/29/02, Marc Attinasi wrote:
>I am working with someone to produce leather and lizard coverings
>for M6 cameras. I have an M6 0.85 'classic' (non-ttl) that we will
>be using to make the template, but I am wondering if the leatherette
>coverings are all the same for the full range of 'standard' M6
>bodies:
>
>M6 0.72 non-ttl (original)
>M6 0.85 non-ttl (limited production, the one I have and the one we
>will make the template from)
>M6 ttl (0.58, 0.72, 0.85 - current production)
>
>I am guessing that the parts between the top and bottom plates are
>the same in these cameras, so the coverings are identical, but I
>thought I'd defer to the experteise of the list to be sure.
>
>The person making the coverings is Morgan Sparks, and he is
>currently making them for Olympus cameras (OM and some of the older
>rangefinders too) and they are awesome (if you like that sort of
>thing, which I do). I begged him to make up some for the M6 and
>volunteered to do the footwork and provide the test subject. Check
>out the coverings at
>http://homepages.together.net/~msparks/leathers/index.html if you
>are keen on the idea.
I'll be interested in lizard camera coverings a short while after a
croc eats me trying to photograph it. :-)
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