Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have and still use two of these that I bought in about 1967. They've for the most part proven to be very durable, only one having needed a slight repair. I wrote to Seth Levine, sending a picture of mine, and asked him about the possibility of making one for me, but he said he didn't have the hardware (and I think he might have also thought it wouldn't be worth looking for just one person, so feel free to write and tell him otherwise). I've been looking for several years for a modern equivalent of the spring snap (to build my own strap), and haven't found one as nice, though similar, inferior, ones do exist. Seth's new strap has enough extra length that a stock one could be easily converted, if the snap were available. For the curious, the essence of it is that at the end where the adjustable length of strap turns around through the split ring the ring is replaced with a steel snap similar to what you find on the end of a luggage strap. That attaches to another ring, which is on the end of a 6-1/2" length of strap which terminates at the other end with the now-missing split ring. When the camera is on your shoulder, the snap is at the front, at about armpit level, permitting you to unsnap the strap and slip the camera out from under your coat. The Domke strap is a similar idea, with two frighteningly cheap snaps instead of one, and crappy wide synthetic instead of leather. I checked it out, but just couldn't see it as a substitute for the elegantly warm Schwalberg. - --Michael Darnton _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.