Those of you who own the new E-M5II can buy the very first leather case from Cina. You get them on eBay in [shoplink 52300 ebay]Full Black (Click here)[/shoplink] or in [shoplink 52301 ebay]Full Brown (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Not a fan, especially of the brown one. Take an already busy camera body and then add a different color, contrast stitching and even more cutouts and lines? Makes it a visual mess.
I like the brown one. It would have looked prettier with the 12mm or 25 mm Olympus lens.
I can easily imagine the possible implication, when someone buys a 12mm pancake for plane spotting, because this lens will look great with his M5II with leather case…
I would like to see a case that has a little extra grip area to make hand-holding the em5 II a little easier with the 12-40.
It’s called the HLD-8 “Power Battery Holder”, the battery box and the accessory handle separate, nice touch.
No, it won’t fit in the case.
Surprisingly awful.
I’ve never been a hugh fan of leather cases.
I can agree that they look acceptable (sort of) on cameras with smooth surface (Sony A7) and that they looked fine on analog bodies (because they covered most of the fake leather texture).
This case on the M5II is just sad…
Especially the brown one, where the texture contrast is rather striking.
“Hey look, I’m a lower half of camera leather case. We have very small cows in China.”
In a word… Tacky.
I LOATHE white stitching on dark leather. A black Sharpie is a solution for that design misstep.
If they want to go retro, they should really do themselves a favor and look at the leather cases for 1960s and 70s SLRs. Like the one on my 1970-ish Pentax Spotmatic.
The only reason you kept the leather half case on was to be able to easily snap on the 50mm lens-covering top piece. Otherwise, they were a PITA. Leave the top part flopping or stash it someplace? Using a tripod, changing rolls of film. It was always in the way.
When I got my last SLR I didn’t bother with a leather case. Freedom!
The E-M5ii is made in Vietnam.
The chinese have a habit of calling material leather when it’s actually polyurethane plastic, synthetic leather; that’s more than a bit of a no-no over here, you can’t call it leather if it is not leather.
The case is made in China, so it’s highly unlikely that they import cowhide from Vietnam. 🙂
Obviously I’ve never seen the case and hopefully I’ll never will. But they clearly stated that it’s “genuine leather” which most likely is what we in Europe simply call leather. 😛
How does it stay attached? I don’t see a tripod screw, like with a Gariz case.
If you look closely at the battery door cutout, it looks like there’s a metal plate in the base of the case with a new tripod mount pushed forward. So, perhaps there’s another screw that attaches the case to the original tripod mount in the camera.
Of course, I’m making it all up…
I wouldn’t buy one of those for all the tea in Cina
I like the brown case but not a fan of the black one. I would not buy either because I use cameras for their primary intended use (tool to take images) and tripods and changing batteries aren’t as easy with a case, but for the trendy “street photographer” I think there is appeal.
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Uglier then the south side of a northbound cow.
‘then’?
Nice leather cases.
I don’t know if you’ve used the E-M5ii but it really does handle better with the optional grip fitted.
So those cases won’t fit.
I don’t like the contrasting stitching, it makes them look cheap, not elegant.
There’s a lumpy protrusion right where the tripod mount goes.