Two new accessories from Leica help to keep your equipment in pristine condition. A leather case, with soft interior padding, is the ideal protection for the Visoflex 2, the latest viewfinder which attaches to the Leica M11 camera.
The Visoflex 2 leather case will sell for £115, including VAT.
The second item is a rather unusual multi-purpose 45 x 45cm leather wrap intended to protect cameras, lenses or other valuable equipment. It is made from a very soft napa sheepskin. The retail price of the wrap is £130, including tax.
Both items are available from Leica stores and authorised retailers. Find full details here.
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Yawn.
I agree!
I got one of those camera wraps years ago. Love it.
Remembers me of a joke I read on an old photography magazine reviewing an R Leica reflex (perhaps the R4) having a battery compartment that you should unscrew with a twopence coin. The joke ran that Leica offered a special edition twopence Leica coin for Just twenty pounds.
I have a 40x40xm leather wrap that used to be sold by German camera shop Monochrom. As a practical matter, a neoprene wrap makes a lot more sense.
Oddly, Leica doesn’t make a version of its camera cases for the M11 with Visoflex 2 mounted. The standard M cases can’t cope with the protrusion so I ended up going with a Zing SLR cover, small size, that works just fine.
For the price of the Visoflex 2, I think Leica cheaped out once again with the drawstring bag that it comes supplied with. The old EVF 020 from the M10 came with a nice pouch. The new box too for the M11, no doubt more eco-friendly but surely more likely to end up in landfill than say an M10, M240, M9 box… just sayin’
Does anyone use a leather wrap? Now I’m just curious.
A day late and a dollar short is Leica, I have been buying from ROCK AND ROLL their soft Napa wraps comes in four sizes. Last I knew three colors.