[Leica] Softies for new M (and maybe M-E and Monochrom)

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I think that's probably true; either they or some subcontractor just 
eyeballed it. AFAIK, there is no specification for it, just 'as long as it 
works' over 130 years. At least it's not another new 'cable release'!

Henning


On 2013-03-07, at 5:43 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> On one of the forums it looked like it was not a planned change, just a 
> different batch and Leica did not know..... The Monochrom is different to 
> the M9.
> 
> john
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> The new M comes with different threads for the cable release socket (why, 
> Leica, why?) and needs new softies. So Tom and I went to his favourite CNC 
> shop and we made about 10 different ones until we got the length, taper 
> and threads correct. I now have a new softie.
> 
> Pictures at: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/Stuff/softies/
> 
> Henning Wulff
> henningw at archiphoto.com
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