Sorry Dan, tarted up cameras turn me right off.
Understood, benjoboy. I couldn't carry one myself. I like to overhaul and sell Rolleis and other TLRs. Trying leather made sense, and trying color made sense. I live in a city where TLRs are popular among a certain age group, and they seem to like the difference. I justify it by saying that the leather is quality, the cutting is good, and the application is solid. So I am not trashing the camera or doing any damage to the underlying mechanism.
Once I finish one, I hope to sell it and get it out of my sight quickly!
MFStooges, the back presents a bit of a problem for me. The back edge is stamped without the harder edges of other machined places. For some reason, this width had worked fine on a previous camera, but on this one it fell more on the edge rise.
