castelletta Posted April 22, 2007 Share #1 Posted April 22, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Mine is a very "light" question. Is the transparent adhesive plastic lid on the bottom of the camera of any utility or can be removed without worrying ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 22, 2007 Posted April 22, 2007 Hi castelletta, Take a look here M8 bottom plastic lid. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
tashley Posted April 22, 2007 Share #2 Posted April 22, 2007 I left mine on in case I wanted to sell the camera, now I leave it on so that when it becomes a collectible classic, it is in pristine condition... Why remove it? t Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_big Posted April 22, 2007 Share #3 Posted April 22, 2007 It's like leaving plastic covers on your furniture. I took mine off the second I got the camera. I like my equipment looking like it's been used. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tashley Posted April 22, 2007 Share #4 Posted April 22, 2007 It's like leaving plastic covers on your furniture. I took mine off the second I got the camera. I like my equipment looking like it's been used. LOL I rarely invite guests to sit on my camera... t Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eronald Posted April 23, 2007 Share #5 Posted April 23, 2007 LOL I rarely invite guests to sit on my camera... t What about the paper label undreneath ? Acetone ? Edmund Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvaubel Posted April 23, 2007 Share #6 Posted April 23, 2007 What about the paper label undreneath ? Acetone ? Edmund The plastic film on the bottom is supposed to protect the anodized finish while it is being handled prior to sale i.e. while being demod. I can't imagine it would last that long without looking like hell. The bare bottom is actually pretty durable; mine looks fine after three months and 3000 shots. It cetainly holds up better than any plastic film would. Face it, the plastic will look horrible sooner or later. Actually the plastic looked pretty horrible from the beginning. Sort of like putting cheap set covers on the leather seats in your new Mercedes. But to each his own Rex Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eronald Posted April 23, 2007 Share #7 Posted April 23, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) The plastic film on the bottom is supposed to protect the anodized finish while it is being handled prior to sale i.e. while being demod. I can't imagine it would last that long without looking like hell. The bare bottom is actually pretty durable; mine looks fine after three months and 3000 shots. It cetainly holds up better than any plastic film would. Face it, the plastic will look horrible sooner or later. Actually the plastic looked pretty horrible from the beginning. Sort of like putting cheap set covers on the leather seats in your new Mercedes. But to each his own Rex I removed the plastic, but the paper sticker is uglier . Remove with Acetone ? Edmund Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_big Posted April 23, 2007 Share #8 Posted April 23, 2007 I removed the plastic, but the paper sticker is uglier . Remove with Acetone ? Edmund I used a product called Goo Gone. The outline of the sticker remained but that eventually disappeared. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted April 23, 2007 Share #9 Posted April 23, 2007 I left the plastic and all labels on the original base plate but I bought a black grip base to go with my Chrome M8. I have taken the plastic shield off that but left the label on. I see no need to remove that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
george + Posted April 23, 2007 Share #10 Posted April 23, 2007 They were both ugly and useless. I removed them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted April 23, 2007 Share #11 Posted April 23, 2007 Durability of the plastic covering? Well, Leica used it on earlier models too (M6 TTL, M7 and MP). I bought an M6 TTL in 1999, carried it on several backpacking tours up above the Arctic Circle, and sold the camera when I got my M8, and at that time, the plastic was still in very good condition. The entire camera was in fact in A– condition, which helped me to recuperate some dough. I never was one of those people who thought that a real macho photog had to carry a camera that looked as if it had been to the war (preferably WW II) and to that end attacked it with sandpaper and blunt and sharp instruments. A Leica is a precision instrument, and only fools maltreat it. Robert Capa used an eveready case (OK, that was a Contax ...) The insufferable old man from the Age of the Eveready Case Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 23, 2007 Share #12 Posted April 23, 2007 Having read this post, I thought "yes that's something I meant to get round to." I have just done my handle and non-handle bases (I keep my non-handle base with a Manfrotto QR plate on it, in the front of my Billingham). The little grey plastic sticker is a PIG to peel off in one bit, so that you don't have to spend ages scraping little bits of it off with your finger nail. I do have acetone in the house, as I had to buy some to loosen the Loctited fixing screws on my Biogon 21mm bayonet flange to change it to a 28mm flange and the French DIY store only had 1 litre bottles, enough to do about 10,000 Biogons. I decided to try the much gentler ordinary domestic white spirit first to remove the residual sticky residue, as Acetone is pretty violent stuff and will mark or dissolve many plastics. White spirit worked just fine. Off topic I know but.... I was using a Nikon D200 over the week-end with their new 18-200mm super zoom. I did not know Nikon made decent zooms and I have to admit this one is pretty remarkable. The camera as you would expect from Nikon, is very good as well. However I think I would get neck ache after carrying this huge lump of camera and lens around for more than 15minutes. At the other end of the size scale, my little Elmar 50 should arrive later this week and I am looking forward to getting those "being unobtrusive" shots of people with it. Assuming it arrives in time, I am going to take it with me on a short trip to the old fishing communities in the Calanques (France's Fjords) between Cassis and Marseille later this week. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted April 23, 2007 Share #13 Posted April 23, 2007 Some people just sit in the hot sun too long.............. want and insist on a all metal body and leave the plastic on................ go figure guys Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted April 23, 2007 Share #14 Posted April 23, 2007 Just heat the bottom (removed from the camera!! ) with a hairdryer and the whole stuff will peel off easily. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philinflash Posted April 25, 2007 Share #15 Posted April 25, 2007 Roberto, I started a thread on this question about a month ago over at Range Finder Forum and I got a hillarious range of responses: I recommend that you go over there and take a look (you can find it by searching for my name over there). But, in summary, there were about equal postings for leaving it on and taking it off. I still have mine on but only because I have been too lazy to take it off. It is starting to look a bit shabby because it has blistered a bit where it makes contact with tripod head. And I hate CE sticker. Philip Kozloff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
castelletta Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share #16 Posted April 25, 2007 Thank you all for the very different (opposite) suggestions. I decided three days ago to remove the plastic lid and the "very electronic" paper label. This last, to me, was the most hated thing that turned a beautiful classic M body into a sort of computing gadget. It's truly a reseller need to have the bottom protected for demos. The camera can be plastic covered all around if someone prefer to protect it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted April 25, 2007 Share #17 Posted April 25, 2007 Roberto, I started a thread on this question about a month ago over at Range Finder Forum and I got a hillarious range of responses: I recommend that you go over there and take a look (you can find it by searching for my name over there). But, in summary, there were about equal postings for leaving it on and taking it off. I still have mine on but only because I have been too lazy to take it off. It is starting to look a bit shabby because it has blistered a bit where it makes contact with tripod head. And I hate CE sticker. Philip Kozloff I suppose we are lucky that the CE sticker did not say "warning - using this camera may damage your wallet" Write out 100 times "I must stop buying more lenses" Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
castelletta Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share #18 Posted April 25, 2007 I suppose we are lucky that the CE sticker did not say "warning - using this camera may damage your wallet" It has already damaged it. Why still warning? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted April 26, 2007 Share #19 Posted April 26, 2007 I've never understood why the regulatory label couldn't be put on the bottom of the camera inside the base - phone manufacturers seen to be happy putting their labels behind the battery covers. Stick-on labels are my bete-noir. Remember those little gold stickers you used to get on Japanese cameras and lenses? And, don't get me started on laptops. Just bought a new laptop (Sony SZ, sorry Apple, couldn't do it) and there were 5 stickers either side of the track-pad. A couple were clearly for point-of-sale promotion, but the others - "Windows Vista", "NVidia", "Intel Core Duo" were obviously planned to be longer lasting. Eclipse fluid did a great job of removing them... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philinflash Posted April 26, 2007 Share #20 Posted April 26, 2007 It has already damaged it. Why still warning? I am afraid if I pull of the CE sticker there will be another one under there that says "Gotcha, Sucker!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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