I just bought another Retina on the big auction site, this one a IIa. It looked like this when I got it (which is probably why the bidding only went up to $12), so I figured it was a prime candidate for releathering:
Anyway, I looked over a few leathers online and finally decided to do it in -- wait for it -- gray giant bullfrog leather. Just in case, I hedged my bets and bought a kit from Cameraleather too. Well, in due course the leather arrived and I started measuring and cutting the frog skin (surprisingly tough stuff). Unfortunately, close to the end, it appeared I was going to come up one panel short. After sulking a few minutes, I took most of it back off, because I couldn't see how I would be able to combine my frog skin with that black leatherette kit in any way that would look good at all. Finally, I decided to just have one piece of frog hide in the middle of the lens door as an accent, to brass the front of the rim surrounding it, and to just do the rest in the black leatherette. this is what it turned out like:
Retina bumps are for sissies; mine has
warts!
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