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After three months wait, my original black paint M4 has been fixed and reloaded with film.

It came with wrong shutter speed and big dent on the shoulder. Big thanks to my friend Mr. Shi. He fixed all these problems. I think this brassed body is really an eye-catcher.

Painted some black and white buttons this Saturday.

Here are some new painted buttons.

Also, I made a few plane color buttons.

I made myself a few soft release buttons for cameras. The buttons were made of brass. I had painted four buttons and a friend helped me put enamel paint on them the past Sunday. With the enamel paint, color looks vivid and the button surface is very smooth.

I personally like the red “coke cap” and it looks good with my silver M8. These four buttons are just the beginning of the project. I have more ideas about these small buttons. I hope I can have more new designs come along soon.

The black enamel MP arrived last week. The mechanism works silk smoothly. I compared it with my M6. I have to admit with upgraded VF, M6 is working as great as MP. Only when you press down the shutter button then you can feel the “big” difference.

I was looking at other people’s camera photos yesterday. I saw they use hand grip strap on DSLR and small digital cameras like this one.



Then I was thinking what if I can modify my OneKnot wrist strap to this type of grip strap. Here is what I tried in 30 mins.









I can hold camera like this or hold it vertically.

I finally released new case for Leica CL camera.

The new model has riveted strap lugs for user to hold the camera horizontally. It was designed to improve the previous risky stitched lug. The photo shows a broke off lug attachment from the previous model. Reported by DougFord on RFF.

Leica CL is a lovely small rangefinder camera. I always like to see it be protected in nice condition. Here are some CL glamor shots

By Lotari
Beautiful color and texture.

By JapanExposures. Amazing combination!

In June 2008, I start to design wrist strap to match my cases. My first attempt was a brown leather braided strap with string cord.

At the same time, I made a thin leather corded strap. It’s simpler and lighter than the braided version. I decided to work on this direction.

These were the formal wrist straps I made later.

Red tan color version

The black version, I call it “Coachwhip wrist strap”.

I released updated Coachwhip wrist strap in June 2009. Compare to the older version, the new strap has a small leather pad to protect the camera body from being scratched by the metal ring. The leather ring slides to reduce the strap opening which makes much comfortable and secure to hang the camera on wrist.

7月出差回来后给小洋拍的几张照片。用的是Noctilux现代版配Leica M2。抓拍小家伙的神态，没来得及用测光，完全是估光。由于用的是50度的RVP，再估光上计算有些误差，导致照片曝光不足。有些对不起Jun友情赠送的胶卷。

Noctilux真是颗沉重的镜头，配着小巧的M机身比例有些不协调。配大些的Epson R-D1倒是差不多。用了一段时间后感觉唯一不足的是镜头巨大但对焦环太窄，而且总是用不惯方形的收缩式遮光罩。

再添几张更早些时候用50mm Summilux v.2 拍的片子。我个人认为第二代版本的Summilux是性价比最高的莱卡快速标准镜头，全开光圈和Noctilux做对比也毫不逊色，较小的体积更适合平时携带使用。在特定的情况下出现的漩涡焦外虚化令照片很具有感染力。

See what’s in my mail box today.

It’s a Canon P body I bought from Antti who live in Sweden. The camera arrived within a week. Very well packed. I mounted a Leica 50mm Summicron on the body immediately. It’s such a nice old Japanese range finder camera. It works smoothly as it should.

Addition to that, I also received a wrist strap weeks ago from Gordy. It’s a black leather strap with red wrapping cord. I like it very much. It makes a perfect match with my Alpa 11el. It will be even better if I ordered a longer version. This one is a bit short.