ISO: Black dot for an m6ttl

[hawkhanlumist]

A long shot perhaps - but does anyone have a black dot for an m6ttl?

 

[raydm6]

I'm sure you tried/asked DAG already?

 

[hawkhanlumist]

I'm sure you tried/asked DAG already?

I have. Leica don't sell them anymore so he can't get them.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Did Leica produce M6TTL cameras with a black decal? If not, why deface the original concept?

 

[xmas_one]

Gaffer’s tape

 

[jmanivelle]

A long shot perhaps - but does anyone have a black dot for an m6ttl they would be willing to sell me?

There is one on ebay , not sure it is genuine :

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/Original-Le...294747?hash=item1aaaf46b9b:g:fgAAAOSw0ZtftWNG

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Take the red dot off, apply some black paint of your preferred finish; gloss, satin, matte, then gently rub off the raised portion with the Leica script. Voila.
OR: Find a broken Yashica Electro 35 and remove the rectangular logo then cut out the "atomic" part of the logo and use that. 😉

Phil Forrest

 

[Andy Kibber]

I like Phil's suggestion about the Yashica atomic logo

 

[dof]

Did Leica produce M6TTL cameras with a black decal? If not, why deface the original concept?

They produced one that I know of - the LHSA model featured a black dot.

 

[hawkhanlumist]

Did Leica produce M6TTL cameras with a black decal? If not, why deface the original concept?

to make it mine. They did make a few black dot iterations of m's

 

[hawkhanlumist]

Take the red dot off, apply some black paint of your preferred finish; gloss, satin, matte, then gently rub off the raised portion with the Leica script. Voila.
OR: Find a broken Yashica Electro 35 and remove the rectangular logo then cut out the "atomic" part of the logo and use that. 😉

Phil Forrest

This is my back up option

 

[hawkhanlumist]

There is one on ebay , not sure it is genuine :

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/Original-Le...294747?hash=item1aaaf46b9b:g:fgAAAOSw0ZtftWNG

ouch. And that there folks is supply and demand at work.

 

[Bill Blackwell]

I like the "gaffers tape" option. ...

This reminds me of something that happened to me recently. DAG upgraded the loading system in my M2 to that of an M4 recently during a CLA, but he didn't have any more M4 inner plates (the plate with the film loading diagram) - and Leica no longer produces them. So I ordered an inner plate for an M6 and covered the hole for the winder mechanism with black electrical tape.