{"product_id":"flexcase-for-leica-m11-m-ev1-black-python","title":"Black Python FlexCase for Leica M11 \u0026 M EV1","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n\/* the theme's description container runs two columns; .rte is its direct\n   child, so this is the only level at which a span can escape them *\/\n.f-product__description--full-width \u003e .rte{column-span:all;-webkit-column-span:all}\n\n\/* the tab system itself is styled sitewide in assets\/custom.css, keyed on\n   structure rather than on this namespace, so nothing about .ok-tabs is\n   redeclared here. 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Python products cannot be shipped to California. International shipping is currently unavailable. Shipping to Hawaii and Puerto Rico is currently unavailable while we verify applicable wildlife requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ok-lead\"\u003eBlack python, and no two the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ok-intro\"\u003eThe dye takes the colour out of the equation and leaves the relief. Scale size, the run of the diamond, the way the light breaks along the back of the hide: all of that still changes from one skin to the next, and it is easier to read in black than it ever was in natural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ok-intro\"\u003eThe case in these photographs is one of them. Yours will be its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReticulated python, \u003cem\u003eMalayopython reticulatus\u003c\/em\u003e, chrome tanned and dyed black in a matte finish. CITES II certified and imported under the permits that trade requires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front cut is the wide panel carrying the diamond pattern, and it is the one we work from, so the case reads as one continuous run of scales instead of a seam of small pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour plates go under it. Aerospace grade 6061-T6 aluminum, anodized in Black Chrome or Silver Chrome, at 78 grams complete. Solid brass, raw or in a black patina, at 186 grams. Same case, same machining, a little over a hundred grams between them. Black Chrome on black python is the version that disappears against the body; the brass is the one that does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cinput type=\"radio\" name=\"ok-bpy-tabs\" id=\"ok-bpy1\" checked\u003e \u003cinput type=\"radio\" name=\"ok-bpy-tabs\" id=\"ok-bpy2\"\u003e \u003cinput type=\"radio\" name=\"ok-bpy-tabs\" id=\"ok-bpy3\"\u003e \u003cinput type=\"radio\" name=\"ok-bpy-tabs\" id=\"ok-bpy4\"\u003e \u003cinput type=\"radio\" name=\"ok-bpy-tabs\" id=\"ok-bpy5\"\u003e \u003cinput type=\"radio\" name=\"ok-bpy-tabs\" id=\"ok-bpy6\"\u003e \u003cinput type=\"radio\" name=\"ok-bpy-tabs\" id=\"ok-bpy7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-tabs__bar\"\u003e\n\u003clabel for=\"ok-bpy1\"\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/label\u003e \u003clabel for=\"ok-bpy2\"\u003eMaterials\u003c\/label\u003e \u003clabel for=\"ok-bpy3\"\u003eIn Use\u003c\/label\u003e \u003clabel for=\"ok-bpy4\"\u003eIn the Box\u003c\/label\u003e \u003clabel for=\"ok-bpy5\"\u003eCompatibility\u003c\/label\u003e \u003clabel for=\"ok-bpy6\"\u003eCare\u003c\/label\u003e \u003clabel for=\"ok-bpy7\"\u003eFAQ\u003c\/label\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-tabs__panels\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-panel ok-panel--1 ok-panel--cols\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ok-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFits.\u003c\/strong\u003e Leica M11, Leica M EV1.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePlate finishes.\u003c\/strong\u003e Four. Black Chrome and Silver Chrome are aerospace grade 6061-T6 aluminum, anodized. Black Patina and Brass are solid brass.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWeight.\u003c\/strong\u003e 78 grams, 2.8 ounces, with either aluminum plate. 186 grams, 6.6 ounces, with either brass plate. Complete, plate fitted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize.\u003c\/strong\u003e 5 5\/8 inches long, 1 1\/2 inches wide, 2 3\/4 inches high. 143 by 38 by 70 mm. The same on all four plates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTripod.\u003c\/strong\u003e Concealed Arca profile, flush at the bottom. The camera goes on a tripod without the case coming off.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThreads.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two, 1\/4 inch by 20.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTracking.\u003c\/strong\u003e AirTag bay machined into the plate, with its own keychain tool to open it. The tag itself is Apple's and is never included.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBase.\u003c\/strong\u003e Anti-skid treatment. You feel it the moment you set the camera on a flat surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAccess.\u003c\/strong\u003e Battery, SD card and USB-C, all reachable with the case on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fully lined and padded. The finish of the camera never meets bare metal or bare leather.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProduction.\u003c\/strong\u003e Close to three days of machining and hand work go into each one, which is why only a handful leave the bench each month.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrade 2. That is the supplier's own term for a skin that carries some natural marking, and it is the grade we chose on purpose. The dye evens out the colour a natural hide varies in, but it does not touch the scale relief, so every panel still falls differently and no two cases leave the shop with the same pattern. If you want a finish with no variation, this is not the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-panel ok-panel--2 ok-panel--cols\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ok-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBase plate, aluminum.\u003c\/strong\u003e Aerospace grade 6061-T6, machined in our own shop and anodized in Black Chrome or Silver Chrome. The colour sits inside the anodized layer rather than on top of it, so it does not chip off an edge the way paint does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBase plate, brass.\u003c\/strong\u003e Solid brass, machined in the same shop. Raw, so it darkens as it oxidizes, or in a black patina that starts dark.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe skin.\u003c\/strong\u003e Reticulated python, front cut, chrome tanned and dyed black in a matte finish. CITES II certified.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLined and padded inside.\u003c\/strong\u003e The finish of the camera never touches bare material.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMade in Miami.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cut, machined and finished in our own shop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-panel ok-panel--3 ok-panel--cols\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ok-scene\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe skin you get\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePython is not printed. The scales in these photographs belong to one hide and yours will belong to another, which is the whole point of a Grade 2 front cut. Black shows the relief rather than the colour, so what varies is the pattern itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA day of carrying it\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e78 grams on aluminum, 186 on brass, lined and padded either way, so the camera never meets bare metal. The skin is chrome tanned, so it takes damp better than a vegetable tanned hide.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOn the tripod, then off again\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Arca profile is machined into the plate and sits flush, so the camera drops onto a head and comes back off without the case ever leaving it.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKnowing where it is\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe AirTag bay is machined into the plate and opens only with the keychain tool in the box. The tag itself is Apple's.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-panel ok-panel--4 ok-panel--cols\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ok-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFlexCase.\u003c\/strong\u003e One, in black python, with the plate you chose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKeychain tool.\u003c\/strong\u003e Opens the AirTag compartment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAirTag.\u003c\/strong\u003e Never included. Apple sell the tag; what is machined into the plate is the bay it drops into, and the keychain tool that opens it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-panel ok-panel--5 ok-panel--cols\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ok-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLeica M11 and M EV1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cut for those two bodies. It does not fit the M10 or earlier M bodies unless that is confirmed separately. The M11 D has its own FlexCase, because the plate is machined to the body it sits under.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe case stays on.\u003c\/strong\u003e Battery, SD card and USB-C are all reachable without taking the camera out of the skin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStraight onto a tripod.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Arca profile is concealed in the base plate, so the head takes the camera with the case still fitted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo quarter twenty threads.\u003c\/strong\u003e For a plate, a grip, a cage or a strap anchor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-panel ok-panel--6 ok-panel--cols\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWipe the scales with a dry cloth, following the direction they lie rather than against it. If the case takes on water, let it dry away from direct heat, because heat is what lifts and hardens a scale edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe skin is chrome tanned, so it tolerates damp better than a vegetable tanned hide and needs no conditioner on a schedule. Do not work oil or cream under the scales trying to feed it; a matte black python is meant to stay matte, and oil is what turns it patchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Black Chrome and Silver Chrome plates are anodized aluminum, and they are cleaned rather than polished. A dry microfibre lifts dust and fingerprints, and a barely damp cloth followed by a dry one takes off anything the dry cloth leaves. Brush or rinse grit off the base before you wipe it, because sand dragged across the plate is what actually scratches these finishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing abrasive on the aluminum: no metal polish, no scouring pad, no compound. The colour lives inside the anodized layer, so once you cut through it the plate does not come back. Keep solvents and household cleaners away from it too, since anything strongly alkaline will strip anodizing. Soap and water is the strongest thing it needs, and it wants drying afterwards so nothing sits in the AirTag bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrass dulls as it oxidizes. Leave it and it darkens evenly, which is what most people want; polish it and it returns to bright. The black patina is a finish on the same brass, so treat it as a surface: wipe it, do not polish it, or you will take the patina back to bright metal in the places you rub hardest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ok-panel ok-panel--7 ok-panel--cols\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ok-list ok-faq\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWill my case look like the photographs?.\u003c\/strong\u003e In finish and construction, yes. In pattern, no. Python is not printed, so the scales in these pictures belong to one hide and yours will belong to another. The dye is consistent; the scales are not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIs this real python or a printed pattern?.\u003c\/strong\u003e Real. Reticulated python, front cut, dyed black. CITES II certified and imported under the permits that trade requires, which is also why it ships only to approved U.S. destinations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAluminum or brass?.\u003c\/strong\u003e Aluminum if you want the camera to gain almost nothing, 78 grams complete, in Black Chrome or Silver Chrome. Brass if you want the weight in the hand and a plate that ages, 186 grams complete, either raw or in a black patina. Everything else about the case is identical.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDoes the case come off to charge or change cards?.\u003c\/strong\u003e No. Battery, SD card and USB-C stay reachable with the case on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow big is it, and what does it weigh?.\u003c\/strong\u003e 5 5\/8 inches long, 1 1\/2 inches wide, 2 3\/4 inches high. 143 by 38 by 70 mm. It weighs 78 grams, 2.8 ounces, with an aluminum plate, and 186 grams, 6.6 ounces, with a brass one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCan I put it straight on a tripod?.\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes. The Arca profile is machined into the base and sits flush, so nothing needs removing first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDoes an AirTag come with it?.\u003c\/strong\u003e No, and it never has. What we machine is the bay in the plate and the keychain tool that opens it. The tag is Apple's.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWill the black fade?.\u003c\/strong\u003e The dye is through the skin rather than a coating on it, so it does not lift the way a surface colour would. It will take on the marks of being carried, which is the hide behaving correctly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDo the chrome plates age like the brass?.\u003c\/strong\u003e No. Anodized aluminum holds its colour and does not patina, so a Black Chrome or Silver Chrome plate looks the same in a year as it does out of the box. That is the trade: no ageing to enjoy, nothing to keep up with either.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"ok-film\"\u003e\u003cvideo controls=\"controls\" muted=\"\" loop=\"loop\" playsinline=\"\" preload=\"metadata\" poster=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8489\/5472\/files\/python-making-of-poster.jpg?v=1787285260\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\u003e\n\u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/videos\/c\/vp\/32eaf42f84364d10a7308b7476a12052\/32eaf42f84364d10a7308b7476a12052.HD-1080p-7.2Mbps-92212064.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\u003e\n\u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/videos\/c\/vp\/32eaf42f84364d10a7308b7476a12052\/32eaf42f84364d10a7308b7476a12052.HD-720p-4.5Mbps-92212064.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\u003e\u003c\/source\u003e\u003c\/video\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003eSewn by hand in Miami\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ok-disclaimer\"\u003eThe film shows the FlexCase in the natural python finish. The hide, the cut, the machining and the construction are the same on the black. Made in Miami, by photographers, for photographers. 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