tony_salce Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Those LHSA members would have noticed the great advertisement on the back of the most recent edition of VIEWFINDER. It has an M3 with a DR Summicron MC meter. I am wondering about the strap and in particular the clips attaching to the lugs. Can you get these straps any more ? Were they a common type of strap at the time or were the plain rings more prominent ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans_berkhout Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Tony those were indeed common on the Mbodies, I still have one somewhere in a drawer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_greenstein Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 I'd love to get a poster of that ad. It's gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
love4leica Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Hi Tony....... Not every one is member of LHSA. Any chance of scanning it and showing it on here to share, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_salce Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 Hello Afzal, Thank you for the suggestion. I have scanned the picture. My apolgies to all. My scanner is of poor quality. Here goes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_salce Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 In addition to a poor scanner are negligible computer skills. I apologise for the large scanned image. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 I haven't seen new camera straps like that in probably 30 years! They were pretty common at one time. Someplace kicking around here I have a few of those screw-clips that I saved from straps whose leather had seen better days. The clip is handy to put on and take off the camera but tends to scratch up the finish. Not the ideal thing for a Fondler to put on his or her brand new MP unless they just intend to put it on the table next to a "Do Not Touch" sign where their friends can admire it and say "Ooh! Gorgeous!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rover Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Luigi is now offering a clasp option on his Leica Time straps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_graham3 Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 "Not the ideal thing for a Fondler to put on his or her brand new MP unless they just intend to put it on the table next to a "Do Not Touch" sign where their friends can admire it and say "Ooh! Gorgeous!"" </p> And yet another of your endless posts that are simply a pretext to once more expel your ad nauseam rant against people who have enough money to buy a new Leica and enough self-esteem to take pride in its ownership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian bastin Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Al keeps us sane - agervatin, aint it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_graham3 Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 "Al keeps us sane" Yeah, by giving us an exetreme counter example to juxtapose against ourselves. Aggrevating? Not really. Disgusting at most, pitiable at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotr_panne Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Al\'s just calling it what it is. Same thing happens in a machine shop with one guy admiring another\'s work - he\'s told to quit finger phuking the parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 That Viewfinder ad looks similar to this...<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furcafe Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Yes, you can still get straps like that nowadays w/those clips, but they're usually found on luggage (purses & shoulder bags), not camera straps. The downside of using the clips is that they may mess up the camera around the strap lugs. If you're not wedded to the old-timey leather strap, Domke's Gripper straps have quick-release clips, but you have to reverse the ends of each strap (very easy to do, however). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablito_pistola Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 The clips on those old straps may offer a "vintage" look, but from a utilitarian point of view, they suck. The lock-nut had a way of coming unscrewed over time and the strap would come off the camera resulting in the camera crashing to the ground. These straps belong in a museum , not on a camera anyone is going to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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