[Leica] M8 neckstrap failure

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Unfortunately i have had way too many steel O rings tear up strap lugs on 
camera bodies.  I will stick with the Leica straps that stay on my shoulder, 
instead of sliding off them.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Howard Cummer <cummer@netvigator.com>: 
-------------- 


> Hi Jim, 
> I suggest using, as I do on all my M's, the Cosina Voigtlander strap 
> - the one with the leather scratch protectors and the steel O rings. 
> Wonderful design - very classy. 
> Cheers 
> Howard (in Hong Kong) 
> On 26 Mar 2007, at 2:42 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: 
> 
> > To: LUG@Leica-Users.org 
> > Subject: [Leica] M8 Neckstrap Failure 
> > 
> > This is a public service announcement: 
> > 
> > I was street shooting yesterday M8 on shoulder when I heard a horrible 
> > "thud." I look over my shoulder and on the concrete and there lys my 
> > pampered chrome M8. I inspect the Leica provided neck strap and the 
> > plastic 
> > collar was missing so the strap came off the steel clasp. I had never 
> > noticed problematic clasp before this time. At first inspection the 
> > strap on 
> > my M8 seemed to be the same as the one that came with my M6 ten 
> > years ago 
> > (my M6 strap served me for ten years on three contents and Oceania 
> > and still 
> > serves to this day). Further examination shows the plastic sleeve 
> > on the 
> > M8's strap to be of a brittle and different plastic. This is a 
> > ticking time 
> > bomb for anyone who relies on their provided neck strap to hold 
> > their M8's 
> > around their necks. 
> > 
> > Jim Nichols 
> > Tullahoma, TN USA 
> > 
> 
> 
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