Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/08

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Subject: [Leica] Softies for new M (and maybe M-E and Monochrom)
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 07:06:44 +1000
References: <41CEDDD8-6E9C-439D-9559-59189A7415CB@archiphoto.com> <A43E8369-DEB3-43BF-ABF0-CDC3597E84CC@frozenlight.eu>

Nathan an extra twenty dollars to replace a softie has decided you against
the M ! I'm pretty sure you weren't about to buy one new at the full price
now were you ;-)

*If you want to take more interesting pictures,
stand in front of more interesting stuff* -- Joe McNally

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 8 March 2013 16:33, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> That really sucks. Now I know for sure I will not be buying any of the new
> Ms, only a used M9 once the prices fall to my level.
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> Great to see Tom in action!
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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> YNWA
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> On Mar 8, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Henning Wulff wrote:
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> > The new M comes with different threads for the cable release socket
> (why, Leica, why?) and needs new softies. So Tom and I went to his
> favourite CNC shop and we made about 10 different ones until we got the
> length, taper and threads correct. I now have a new softie.
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> > Pictures at: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/Stuff/softies/
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> > Henning Wulff
> > henningw at archiphoto.com
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Replies: Reply from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Softies for new M (and maybe M-E and Monochrom))
In reply to: Message from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] Softies for new M (and maybe M-E and Monochrom))
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Softies for new M (and maybe M-E and Monochrom))