Whats up with Camera Leather these days?

Huss · Dec 24, 2018

Fits like this all over the camera:

Done with cameraleather. Aki-Asahi fits perfectly.

AgX · Dec 24, 2018

As the fault shows up at both directions and is even stronger laterally, the cover may have shrunken. What is not good either though.

Huss · Dec 24, 2018

AgX said:
As the fault shows up at both directions and is even stronger laterally, the cover may have shrunken. What is not good either though.

That's how it was when I first applied it, it did not shrink later. So either it was not made correctly, or it shrank after they made it and before I received it.
My first purchase from cameraleather a few years earlier for an M3 fit perfectly, so it seems things have changed in the interim.

Born2Late · Dec 24, 2018

Huss said:
That's how it was when I first applied it, it did not shrink later. So either it was not made correctly, or it shrank after they made it and before I received it.
My first purchase from cameraleather a few years earlier for an M3 fit perfectly, so it seems things have changed in the interim.

Is it real leather?

Huss · Dec 25, 2018

Born2Late said:
Is it real leather?

According to cameraleather, yes. But that's neither here nor there. My other real leather one I bought several years earlier fit perfectly, and still fits perfectly.

choiliefan · Dec 26, 2018

IIRC Morgan uses steel rule dies and a clicker rather than laser-cutting his materials.
Either way, material shrinkage seems the obvious cause of the ill-fitting Leica covering.

Huss · Dec 28, 2018

choiliefan said:
IIRC Morgan uses steel rule dies and a clicker rather than laser-cutting his materials.
Either way, material shrinkage seems the obvious cause of the ill-fitting Leica covering.

The reason doesn't matter. The leather did not fit.

Aki-Asahi uses die cutting, and their stuff is always perfect

http://aki-asahi.com/store/html/cutting-process/F3.html

Born2Late · Dec 28, 2018

Huss said:
The reason doesn't matter. The leather did not fit.

Aki-Asahi uses die cutting, and their stuff is always perfect

http://aki-asahi.com/store/html/cutting-process/F3.html

If the reason is shrinkage, it doesn't matter which cutting method was used.

Huss · Dec 29, 2018

If it is shrinkage, then cameraleather is using substandard materials.

daleda · Apr 7, 2019

Rock and Roll straps are hand made in Cyprus, I have them on my M3’s. Beautiful craftsmanship.

Booger Flicker · May 6, 2025

I ordered a set of textile leather for my Konica Auto S2. LOVE them. I had them in 3 days.

Whats up with Camera Leather these days?

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