New custom plate for Leica M8/M9 from RRS

By LR admin | Published: April 6, 2010

Just received an email newsletter from ReallyRightStuff - they are working on a custom plate for the Leica M8/M9 with an optional grip. Here are the details:

"Due to popular demand, Really Right Stuff is creating a custom plate for the Leica M8 and M9 cameras. This new Leica plate will be unlike any other ever made.

The passionate voices of our Leica shooters dictated a fresh approach to the design of this plate. Instead of a standard L-plate that mounts to the camera's tripod socket, our plate actually completely replaces the Leica base. This replacement base will have an integrated dovetail for mounting in a Really Right Stuff clamp. Use the base alone as a conventional plate, or add an optional vertical component to create the L-plate. This vertical component will screw precisely to the base using our standard hex key tool.

Excited about this design, but still want to use a grip? No problem. Add our new optional grip; the grip will screw to the other side of the base plate."

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  3. New: ReallyRightStuff L-Plate for Leica S2
  4. New Leica D-Lux 4 custom grip coming soon
  5. I got my Leica D-Lux 4 custom grip

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2 Comments

  1. Bruce
    Posted April 7, 2010 at 4:26 pm | Permalink

    Must be a market for these plates I guess… Personally, I have never seen an M camera mounted on a tripod live out in the field…. EVER. RRS make great kit and I use their products for my Nikon gear.

  2. Willem Velthoven
    Posted April 10, 2010 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

    This makes a lot of sense. The normal M8/9 baseplates are so very wobbly that stable tripod mounting is impossible. I’ll order one as soon as they are available!