Soft Release
 

No problem. It's the Abrahamsson mini in black chrome.

Here it is with the 90MM Rokkor.

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Thanks Martin. Looks like it was made for the CL and now I'm going to have to get one myself!

-Randy

The previous owner of this camera was nice enough to provide these images of the camera before I purchased it.

Beam me up Scotty!
 

Well, after a week of shooting the M3 on an assignment, I noticed a piece of vulcanite was lifting by the lens mount. ( See photo of beer and light meter in pocket ).

So good ol' resourceful me took out some crazy glue and a toothpick hoping to ease the corner up and dab in place. When I lifted the piece up gently, it snapped clean to the preview lever, DOH!!!

So I put the glue on it in three places and thought, easy-peasy, I'll just stick back on. Wrong...it crumbled. Sooo, I ordered a Cameraleather.com Granite Kid Skin kit.......

....Well, I got it today, and it is not really the marbled look I thought I was going to get, but after careful consideration, I had the old vulcanite off in about 20 minutes. In another hour, between razor blades, q-tips and nail polish remover and a brillo pad, the camera was totally devoid of old adhesive.

The installation went good overall. The back plate was a bit larger than the opening so i had to trim the leather down a bit so the adhesive made a bit of a mess.

On the front, the four screw holes were a tiny bit elongated and did not fit tightly around the screws, but close enough.

I really like the all chrome look of the grey leather, kind of different. Now I need that nice chrome Summicron ( hint, hint ). Kind of looks like Leica's version of the Hasselblad "HDC" moon camera...:-)

The only problem now is when I cleaned up the little bit of adhesive around some of the seams, the rubbing alcohol got into the leather and discolored it a bit. So I am not really sure how to clean it up.

Overall, I had a good time putting the new leather on and I am happy with the way it turned out......it sure is "My" camera now, LOL!!

old lense new cam

M5677
 

Here they are- the M5 with Hexanon, M6 with 40'cron & VF, M7 .72 with 50'cron and M7 .58 with 35'cron asph. Damn I hate that digital camera.

looks good, KM. Interesting colour indeed.

What's the bottle, corona?:)

Si.

I think that photo of me is running in a local paper, too funny.
All the necessities of a week long assignment in a bar, LOL!!

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my best lover!!!:p

I agree. Black lenses just don't look right on that camera. And i am willing to help you out and trade my nice collapsible summicron for that black ugly summilux of yours.
:)

Why do you need goggles (eyes?) on a 50mm when you put it on a m3?
And in general, what's the idea behind these "goggled" lenses? I thought it's to help using wide lenses with bodies not having the appropiate framelines...but seems i was wrong.

It's a 50mm Dual range, the goggle is used for close focus only. when it's used in normal focus range(1m+), the goggle can be removed.

yes .. it is ture....:) :) thank you rg!!!

aaha...thanks roundg.

Here's my recently skinned M3. Awaiting its new leather from Morgan Sparks. I had decided to repaint the back door, so I carefully sanded away the paint, but I liked the way the metal looked underneath, so I sanded it a bit more and just finished it off with an acrylic. We'll see how it looks with the new cover. Figure I can always paint it later if I want.

WOW~~~ abenner, it's so sexy!!! ahaha

Black M2
 

My repainted black M2 in Prague cafe last week.:cool:

minmingg is it possible to get rid off googles on summaron, and use it without them?

No. It's not only a matter a frame selected: The googled Summaron needs the goggles to focus correctly.

See here:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...mmaron+googles

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...mmaron+googles

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...mmaron+googles

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...mmaron+googles

edho

Why did you repaint your M2?

Noel

My LHSA MP3 with Leicavit
 

and... it's for sale! check the classifieds.

It was bought that way and I like it. Although original black paint M2 is more precious but is a bit too expensive.

Just a commoner, but my favorite M, as a shooter ...

Shot with Kodak Tri-X 400, Tmax dev, toned