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Subject: [Leica] m8 bag? why -- the m classic bag
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Sun Mar 25 07:42:49 2007
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You're right Kyle,
It is a great bag. I have the orignal and it works very well. Mostly  I 
use it for my Rolleiflexes though.

Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema

Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> A few years ago, out of the blue, a package arrived at my door. It was an 
> M-Classic bag with a note from the manufacturer saying "we'd like to send 
> you this bag and hope you enjoy it." I was feeling very internet-celebrity 
> at the time and I mention it now for full disclosure -- so take my review 
> for what it's worth.
> 
> http://www.mclassics.com/
> 
> I've found it to be a marvelous Leica rangefinder bag. One interior pocket 
> with a sort of cloth "cup" hanging to one side that fits your m and keeps 
> it handy and always in the same place. the Interior compartment also has a 
> canvass tongue that runs from left to right that you're supposed to use to 
> make some sort of "S" shape i guess and keep yoru lenses from banging into 
> one another, it usually gets crushed down to the bottom of the bag with 
> things piled on top of it because I'm not terribly meticulous about the 
> care of my cameras. If they bang together, i figure thats why they're made 
> of metal. Anyway. It has three exterior pockets which close very nicely 
> with leather buckles. it also has a wide exterior pocket that will hold a 
> magazine or your itiniary. of all the bags i have this is the only one 
> that people stop me on the street and say "hey! nice bag!". It fits my 15 
> inch titanium powerbook just barely but probably wouldn't do so with a 
> camera in it. It'll fit a DSLR, 
but you need to take the lens off first and cap the body. As an M bag, i 
think it's hard to beat.
> 
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