SlimCase for Leica M11 & M EV1 - Buffalo
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Buffalo hide on the smallest case we make
The SlimCase is the FlexCase with everything unnecessary removed. No Arca profile, no AirTag compartment, just leather around the body and a precision machined plate underneath. This run is buffalo: a hide with a grain so deep it reads as texture from across a room, over an aircraft grade aluminum plate in Black Chrome or Silver Chrome.
The plate carries a spare SD card, an anti skid pad and two quarter twenty threads, and it leaves the battery and the USB-C port open. The EDC Keychain Tool that opens the card door is in the box. Built for the Leica M11 and M EV1, in limited batches.
- The grainBuffalo is not calf with a pattern pressed into it. The raised grain is the hide's own, so it varies across the case and from one case to the next.
- Traveling lightLess leather and no bracket. The camera keeps its shape in the bag without gaining the bulk of a full case.
- The card you forgotA spare SD card lives in the plate. The tool that opens the door is on your keys, not in a drawer at home.
- WearThe hide darkens where your hand sits and the grain softens with it. A year in, no two of these look alike.
- Leica M11 and M EV1. The plate is machined to those bodies.
- The case stays on. Battery and USB-C are reachable with the camera still in the leather.
- The SD card too. The plate carries its own door, and the EDC tool that opens it is in the box.
- Two quarter twenty threads. Straight onto a tripod head, a plate or a strap anchor.
- No Arca profile, no AirTag compartment. Those live on the FlexCase. The SlimCase trades them for less material and less weight.
- South African buffalo. A heavy, deeply pebbled grain that no calf hide produces, in a grey brown that shifts warm or cool with the light.
- Structured, not stiff. It holds its shape from the first day and breaks in with use rather than going floppy.
- Lined and padded inside. The finish of the camera never touches bare material.
- Aircraft grade aluminum plate. Precision machined, in Black Chrome or Silver Chrome.
- Made in Miami. Cut, machined and finished in our own shop.
- Fits. Leica M11, Leica M EV1.
- Plate. Aircraft grade aluminum, Black Chrome or Silver Chrome, at the same price.
- Threads. Two quarter twenty.
- Card storage. A spare SD card sits in the plate itself.
- Base. Anti skid pad.
- Access. Battery and USB-C without removing the case.
- In the box. The EDC tool, designed by Gaston Shutters, for the SD door.
- Production. Limited batches. Excluded from sitewide promotions.
- Wipe it dry. A dry cloth for dust, a barely damp one for anything else.
- If it gets wet. Let it dry away from direct heat. A radiator will stiffen leather permanently.
- Conditioner. Sparingly. A grain this heavy needs very little.
- The grain will change. Buffalo darkens and softens where your hand sits. That is the hide working, not the case wearing out.
- How is this different from the FlexCase?The SlimCase drops the Arca profile and the AirTag compartment. Less material, less weight, the same protection where the camera meets the leather.
- Do I have to take it off to change the battery or the card?No. The battery and USB-C are open, and the SD card sits behind a door in the plate that the included EDC tool opens.
- Black Chrome or Silver Chrome?Both, at the same price. Black Chrome disappears under the leather. Silver Chrome draws a line along the base that reads against a dark hide.
- Will mine look exactly like the photographs?Close, not identical. Buffalo grain varies more than calf does, so no two cases carry the same pattern.
- Does it fit the M11 D?No. That body needs its own plate.
