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Subject: [Leica] Black Tape - Silver Tape?
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:22:14 -0400
References: <43d2b9bb0903110947t1e795bcn6fd3f12b24a6dd2f@mail.gmail.com>

Shhhhh.
Dr. Blacktape may wake up and extol Olympus cameras and show off really good
subway shots.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jan Decher <wanderjan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting this came up.  I have seen several pictures of black Leicas
> with
> the name and the idiotic red dot covered in black.  I wondered whether
> someone has used some sort of removable silver tape to cover up the names
> on
> a chrome Leica?
> Advertising  "look here expensive Leica !" is one thing I don't like on my
> M6 compared to the more discreet M3 I had before.  Keeping your gear
> discreet could make a huge difference for safety in places like Naples,
> Kontantinople, or Budapest...well, anywhere really.
>
> That said, I had a ton of gear stolen in bright daylight in Accra, Ghana,
> in
> 1999. where I don't think too many thiefs knew the difference between a
> Leica and the Contax Aria I was using at the time. To them it was just a
> backpack (LowePro Nature Trekker) full of valuables...
> Jan
>
> ===========From: Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net>
> >
> >  Black tape just has no place on a Leica.
> > ric
>
> Heresy!
>
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-- 
Don
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