taxor
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Don't ask me why, but I've got this irresistible urge to re-cover my Mamiya C330f. It's got a perfectly fine factory standard leatherette covering, but a chance encounter with www.cameraleather.com got me thinking seriously about the 'Morocco red' leatherette covering. Please talk me out of it someone!
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beejaybee
Marvin
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'Morocco red' leatherette covering. Please talk me out of it someone!
Sacrilege. Morocco leather should be black. 
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mediaman
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Use a shoe type leather dye, to see if it looks weird/ok first. Show us the result. 
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Rhys
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Wasn't this mentioned on here some years ago and someone re-covered a 500c?
Anyone remember?
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Benchista
Which Tyler
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We've certainly discussed the site a time or two over the years. Can't recall if anyone has acually used them, though.
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Rhys
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We've certainly discussed the site a time or two over the years. Can't recall if anyone has acually used them, though.
IIRC someone re-covered a Hasselblad with red leatherette - think it was on the old red forum and the search facility on here certainly doesn't help. or maybe I'm confused - it is Christmas after all.. 
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Benchista
Which Tyler
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It's quite possible. As you say, the current search facility doesn't really help. I've often fancied getting one of my cameras done. Sad, I know. 
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TimF
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We've certainly discussed the site a time or two over the years. Can't recall if anyone has acually used them, though.
IIRC someone re-covered a Hasselblad with red leatherette - think it was on the old red forum and the search facility on here certainly doesn't help. or maybe I'm confused - it is Christmas after all..
I might be barking up completely the wrong tree, but wasn't that John, who sadly died a couple of years ago?
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Benchista
Which Tyler
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Could well be, actually.
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Rhys
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Could well be, actually.
I think your right - didn't he have a tatty one he was rebuilding or something and had it covered in blue?
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TimF
Taking it strictly
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Something like that. IIRC the project was to show that a Hassy outfit could be assembled quite cheaply by picking up stuff in need of some CLA and doing it yourself.
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parisian
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It was indeed our friend John Mac.
To my memory he did a damn fine job too.
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Mark101
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I prefer green - But then again there is something seriously wrong with my mind ! 
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Tickhiller
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Don't ask me why, but I've got this irresistible urge to re-cover my Mamiya C330f. It's got a perfectly fine factory standard leatherette covering, but a chance encounter with www.cameraleather.com got me thinking seriously about the 'Morocco red' leatherette covering. Please talk me out of it someone!
Excuse me gatecrashing a topic I don't know anything about - but I could not resist the title.
I clicked on the link and found a whole new world away from digital.
WOW do they really cover cameras in snakeskin!!!! Checkout that cobra skin!!!
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Julia
"The MADNESS Hamsters. Every night they visit you. Every night they come
And bit by bit. They steal your brain. And feed it to their MUM"
An interesting thought of Edward MONKTON
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beejaybee
Marvin
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WOW do they really cover cameras in snakeskin!!!! Checkout that cobra skin!!!
Betcha the cobra would prefer to be wearing it ... Suppose someone decided to cover a camera with your epidermis?
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Tickhiller
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WOW do they really cover cameras in snakeskin!!!! Checkout that cobra skin!!!
Betcha the cobra would prefer to be wearing it ... Suppose someone decided to cover a camera with your epidermis?
It's a scary world you live in
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Julia
"The MADNESS Hamsters. Every night they visit you. Every night they come
And bit by bit. They steal your brain. And feed it to their MUM"
An interesting thought of Edward MONKTON
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tickhiller/
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taxor
Reged: 09/07/2004
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
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At first I entertained this ridiculous notion that 'Morrocan Red' leatherette might make my C330 stand out a little too much for candid photography!! Using it, as I do, with a trigger grip and a metered chimney finder and sometimes a tele lens, it's difficult to imagine how it could stand out anymore than it already does. So, sod all those muted, tasteful pastel shades; I'm going tecnicolour!
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"I wanna hold your gland". Lemming & McCartney
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Mojo_66
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Reged: 25/05/2006
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I don't blame you. I'd love to see it. I sent my old Minolta XD7 away for a service a while back and it came back with a new covering. If I'd have known I'd have asked for purple metallic
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zx9
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Reged: 22/06/2007
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Some Contax (139 IIRC) limited editions (?) came with 'Ox Blood' covering back in the 80's, you could even get 'never ready' cases in the same colour. I expect that covering will have disintegrated just the same as the normal black ones did leaving a dishevelled grey mess 
I ought to get my 137MA re-covered though what colour?
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TimF
Taking it strictly
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I expect that covering will have disintegrated just the same as the normal black ones did leaving a dishevelled grey mess
Good job my s/h black one is still pristine, eh! 
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Tim BSRIPN
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