Carbon fiber covering for your M

It inspires me to paint the top and bottom plates of a Leica with metal flake hunter green and then replacing the vulcanite with fake wood grain. It would be the limited Leica "Country Squire" edition.

Phil Forrest
 
I've ordered the black covering.

I've ordered the black covering.

I want a stealth, plain black, but the carbon fiber-ish looking one is the closest I've found, so far. With that and my Luigi half-case, my M9 will look like an old film camera, which is what I want.

It beats covering up the Leica dot & 'M9' with electrical tape, which is what I've been doing, so far.
 
It looks like a thatched camera. Maybe that's not the word. Wicker?

I wouldn't worry too much about covering up Leica dots or M9 logos, as I suspect that 99.9% of the people you run into have no idea what either of those are.
 
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Hmmmmmmm Whats the old adage?

"It just goes to show that money does not buy taste!"

But clearly it does buy bad taste in bucketloads! :eek:
 
I don't care whether or not they know what those things signify; the point is that white lettering and red dots draw the eye, and I want the camera to be as inconspicuous as possible.
 
a wood style leatherette would make a leica look like those cars chevy chase would drive in those family holidays movies of the 80s :D

these skins could be an interesting way to make chrome cameras become black ones, or green, for those who feel they want to get a "stealthier" body if more discrete options were available. I like the looks of green bodies (saw a green M2 at Aperture UK in London, looks sexy) and sometimes I would like to have a black M4 without shelling out for a repaint. The available options are quite tacky....
 
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I don't care whether or not they know what those things signify; the point is that white lettering and red dots draw the eye, and I want the camera to be as inconspicuous as possible.
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Black matte model paint works fine. Just fill in the white with black paint and paint over the red dot!
 
Anything flashy on Leica does look cheap.

In this particular case I thought there was something wrong with the pictures. :lol:
 
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