How do I attach lens cap string?!!!

Jan 23, 2009

- Thank you so much! The photography is a piece of cake - just a simple niggle. V grateful for your assistance.

Jan 24, 2009

- Got it! The diagram in the Leica handbook is very little help. If anyone else has the same problem, here's what you do.

1) Leave the string joined together as it is, in a loop
2) Fold it in half and push the double width throught the hole in the lense cap (it comes out of the second hole, so is 'looped' throught the lens cap.
3) Pull it through so equal lengths each side, then open one end of the double string and put the whole lens cap through this loop, then pull string tight. The lens cap is now attached to the string.
4) Repeat the same thing with the strap lug on the side of the camera nearest to the flash. ie fold the string in half (one end has the attached lens cap, the other end is double-width stringth with a bend at the end). Push the double width through the lug, pulling it through far enough that you can open the double width string, and again, put the whole lens cao through the double width string.
The string is now looped through both the lug and the lens cap, attaching them.
So much for technology :-)