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[Logandiana]

So I have been buying leather replacement skin kits from Morgan Sparks at cameraleather.com for a couple of years now. I?ve never had any problems. I place the order and about 10 days to two weeks later I get my kits in the mail. On July 28th I placed an

[Waynemel]

I have only dealt with cameraleather once, about a year ago. I had a similar experience with lack of communication and did have to wait a few months to get my order. Morgan is probably fine, just busy trying to process orders.

[Finnegan]

I sent for a kit to cover a TLR. It arrived in about a week. The piece of covering for the back door was cut backwards. In other words, after positioning it over the tripod mount, it was too short on one end and too long on the other end. Also the squ

[Msteen1314]

I dealt with Morgan a few months ago and while her initial response was 24 hrs after placing the order, it did take about 6 weeks to get the covering for my Kiev 4a. She did apologize for the delay.
I suspect that this will be more typical as more pe

[Msteen1314]

Sorry I just realized, I always assumed that Morgan was a she...please correct if wrong (sorry Morgan)

[Finnegan]

Well, you can always try other camera leather sellers like http://aki-asahi.com/store/

[Logandiana]

Finnegan: I kinda had the same problem with the kit for my TLR. The back piece just didn't fit correctly. I emailed Morgan and got the response the it must have gotten really hot in the mail and shrunk. He said he would send me a replacement back piece

[Fallisphoto]

You know, guys, it IS possible to just buy pieces of leather on ebay and cut them to size yourselves. It often doesn't cost as much, you have a FAR wider selection and some of Morgan's materials, like that Hasselblad vinyl material, are just

[Logandiana]

True, but then again on ebay, you don't have the piece of mind that you do with dealing with a place like camera leather.com. Also I don't want to have to try and cut all my own material I want to get it in the mail and stick it on. Don't get me

[Finnegan]

I heard that the lower level of his business got flooded and he is trying to restore everything.
 
I have bought leather at Tandy stores. They do have real leather thin enough for cameras. Not expensive.

[Donnie_strickland]

From the website:
 
http://www.cameraleather.com/news/
 
August 29, 2011: For the second time this year a major flood event, Irene, this time with electricity but also a massive c

[Logandiana]

Donnie: I noticed that on the website too. The thing is the last order I placed took just about two weeks. This order that I placed was on August 18th, a full 10 days before the hurricane even hit up there. How hard would it be to say
 
August 29([

[Donnie_strickland]

It's only a guess, but I think it most likely that he doesn't say, simply because he doesn't know. Relax and give him time; he'll make it good.

[Miss_emma_jade]

Ive ordered 3 times in last 8 months, return mail. maybe it depends what you order. mine were Leica screw, Cannon 11b and kiev. all in Griptac. more than pleased.

[Finnegan]

Griptac. Ooooo.
 
He doesn't answer because, as it says clearly on the website, read his updates and messages. Everything is clearly spelled out there and, as it says there, it takes hours to answer every e-mail when the answers can be foun