Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:32 AM 4/26/00 -0500, you wrote: > >As a soon to be M6 owner, my thoughts have turned to caps, straps, and > cases. Now I don't have an M6 yet, but when I do, I'll probably get another Domke Gripper (tm) strap. It's thin, (I use the smallest one) cotton with rubber grips woven its overall length. Comfortable for my heavy metal manual cameras and I occasionally use it on my CL so it's good for smaller lighter cameras too. I placed short strap extensions with jump rings on my cameras and reversed the thin straps on the Domke strap. This way when I take the strap off I can clip on and use a smaller wrist strap and I don't have the clips scratching the body of the camera. I usually don't use a neck strap as it screams "tourist" and has nearly choked me before and I never use a half case/never ready case with my cameras as it slows reloading and is more of a nuisance than protection. For an overall outfit case, I went to Wilson's Leather (franchise mall store in the US) and got a nice heavy gauge saddle leather bag and dropped a Domke 4 section insert into it for 1/3 the cost combined of any pro bag that I'd want. It also now looks like a nicely worn book bag with no labels on it and not something that cameras would be found in. (not that it usually leaves my shoulder unless I'm sleeping.) ;-) Carpe Lumen, Michael E. Berube http://www.goodphotos.com