Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 8:05 PM -0800 1/29/02, 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. I'll be interested in lizard camera coverings a short while after a croc eats me trying to photograph it. :-) - -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html