What do you think of this update...

[DNG]

I am looking into getting Bubba a new look...(Black 3 lug M5)

M5 Chrome Shutter Speed dial
M5 Chrome Wind lever
M2/M3 Chrome style VF and ST levers

Sherry will be getting back with me today on the cost..

 

[kdemas]

A panda M5...should look nice! I like mine all black but soon I might doll it up with some new colored covering.

Put up some pics if you get it done!

 

[wjlapier]

anti panda bubba 😉

 

[DNG]

Sherry said $140.00 installed...
I'll sell my CLA'd Pentax Super Program with a 50mm lens to fund it.
Looking forward to this...

 

[DNG]

Borrowed a classified ad picture to make a PS'd image to see how it would look..
The M5 is Bubba though..

I am not good enough to do the Shutter Speed dial or Wind lever though...So, it ain't perfect....

 

[robklurfield]

very bad picture (all the good cameras were in the picture), but you can see an M8 Panda (a factory anti-Panda). I never liked the black on chrome Pandas, but I am very fond of the anti. no accounting for taste, but this is mine.

 

[DNG]

Updated Photo of a Panda M5 pre-view.....
And with a Chrome ZM 50mm f/1.5 C-Sonnar mounted .... Perfect .....

Nice Gear BTW....

 

[unixrevolution]

Both the panda and anti-panda Leica Ms appeal to me. What I'd really love is to do a black M body with fire-engine-red leather and matching Red powdercoated hardware a-la Ferrari racing car (Green is my favorite color, but this would look so perfect in Red I would have to go that direction, though a suitably bright green may work.)

I like your M8, Rob, though my eye is drawn more easily to the Univex Mercury II perched above it.