Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 body sizes?
From: Stephen Gandy <leicanikon@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:13:03 -0800
References: <3C577118.1070301@attinasi.org>

you might try ordering new covers for each M6 body type from Leica USA, and
using those for your templates.

Stephen

Marc Attinasi wrote:

> I am working with someone to produce leather and lizard coverings for M6
> cameras.  I have an M6 0.85 'classic' (non-ttl) that we will be using to
> make the template, but I am wondering if the leatherette coverings are
> all the same for the full range of 'standard' M6 bodies:
>
> M6 0.72 non-ttl (original)
> M6 0.85 non-ttl (limited production, the one I have and the one we will
> make the template from)
> M6 ttl (0.58, 0.72, 0.85 - current production)
>
> I am guessing that the parts between the top and bottom plates are the
> same in these cameras, so the coverings are identical, but I thought I'd
> defer to the experteise of the list to be sure.
>
> The person making the coverings is Morgan Sparks, and he is currently
> making them for Olympus cameras (OM and some of the older rangefinders
> too) and they are awesome (if you like that sort of thing, which I do).
>  I begged him to make up some for the M6 and volunteered to do the
> footwork and provide the test subject. Check out the coverings at
> http://homepages.together.net/~msparks/leathers/index.html if you are
> keen on the idea.
>
> Thanks,
> - marc
>
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