[Leica] Whre to order brass camera-strap rings?

[leicamshooter at yahoo.com (G Medina)]

Thanks... my concern with using the current steel
rings is that they wear away the soft brass lugs on
the older M's. I had a M3 that I used an M6 strap
with, and the lugs were pretty worn by the end of a
long two week photo trip in Paris. Thanks!

--- Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gonzalo,
> At least in Atlanta, most traditional hardware
> stores sell a variety of
> chrome split rings that I have used on cameras in
> the past.  I am not sure I
> have ever seen brass ones in the U.S.  Another
> source is a camera store, a
> lot of inexpensive straps come with the rings and
> sometimes the staff
> collect them as most cameras have lugs built in that
> take the strap and not
> a ring.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> 
> On 6/4/06, G Medina <leicamshooter@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anybody know where I can get brass camera strap
> rings?
> > I had two that came with the M-strap I ordered
> from
> > M-classic bags a couple years ago, but I wonder if
> > anyone knows of another possible source. As I
> recall,
> > M-classics isn't selling leather M straps anymore.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gonzalo
> >
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