Black Leica Dots?

anoldsock

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Does anyone know where I can get black Leica dots besides DAG? He seems to be out, and $18 is a little excessive for a sticker.
 
Me too!! I would love to get my hand on the black one. And I'm also looking for the 'Leitz' one too!

Would appreciate if any kind soul could share their sources.

Cheers,
 
anoldsock said:
Does anyone know where I can get black Leica dots besides DAG? He seems to be out, and $18 is a little excessive for a sticker.
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Not a sticker - it's a stamped, plated, painted, milled piece of metal.

$18? How many Starbucks is that? :D
 
If you don't like the red dot, ask me and I'll mail you one of these black dots to put over your red dot. :)
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$18 won't even get you a cup at starbucks right? Remember when prices were sane, and coffee shops only charged $1.25 for coffee, and topped you off as much as you wanted?

Sorry about the misconception of the sticker. I got my info from here: http://www.nemeng.com/leica/017b.shtml

...so you can blame them. In any case, I have no way of confirming this, but I assume it's a massed produced aluminum metal and stamped on a conveyor belt and probably isn't hand-carved by people with tiny hands and extreme dexterity.

Maybe $18 might not be much relative to other Leica products, but in absolute terms, it's still about $18 for a sticker. I'm just trying to be reasonable. Then again, the argument can be made that if you're buying Leica...you have to be a bit unreasonable. :D


Ken Ford said:
Not a sticker - it's a stamped, plated, painted, milled piece of metal.

$18? How many Starbucks is that? :D
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Chris, you're lucky. I read that Leica wouldn't mail the black ones because they used them for the special titanium M7 bodies.

To each their own. I like my dots red. They look kinda festive to me.
 
That's funny ... I emailed Leica customer service a couple of months ago asking for a black dot. They wouldn't give me one, but were happy to send along a red one. I bit the bullet and bought a black one from DAG. I like it.
 
Me too.

"I'm sorry but the black Leica logo was only on the LHSA M6TTL is is only available to registered cameras."-Leica Customer Service
 
sepiareverb said:
Me too.

"I'm sorry but the black Leica logo was only on the LHSA M6TTL is is only available to registered cameras."-Leica Customer Service
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So, since I have a registered M8, I can get a black dot?

Guess it's worth asking! Thanks for the email address, yoyo22.
 
Looks good on my LHSA M6 ttl. One of the little pleasures of buying that particular camera. You could always buy one of those, I think PhotoVillage has one for about $2300. That's close enough the $18 DAG charges right? ;)
 
Andrew Sowerby said:
That's funny ... I emailed Leica customer service a couple of months ago asking for a black dot. They wouldn't give me one, but were happy to send along a red one. I bit the bullet and bought a black one from DAG. I like it.
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sent an email bout a week ago after reading this and got mine in the mail today. One black and one red! I guess im special :D
 
Switching from red to black?

Switching from red to black?

How is the red dot removed? And does the black replacement have an adhesive surface?

Also, is there a coin-slotted cover available for the (M7) battery compartment?

Harry
 
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