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While it may seem an irrelevant detail, the camera-like leatherette case that flips or snaps open like the old camera cases did, not only made me smile but gave me hope that they were clued in enough to their market as to make it a success.

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To me it's a huge drawback and makes it a no buy. No way I'm going to vote with my money and award them for using inefficient, unrecycled, inferior material instead of abundant recyclable non-animal sourced material.

Edit: Thanks for the flags and downvotes, hate is so fresh here.

Something tells me you wouldn't have gotten it anyways...

I'm a huge fan of customizable camera firmware. Playing with software controlling visual input brings me joy, have bunch of cameras and lack of leather is not a problem at all.

Actually I used "leatherette" in the generic sense of "looks like leather". TBH I have no idea what material it is made of.

It's animal leather, at least that's what can be concluded from a quick Google search.

The arstechnica article linked in another comment calls it "artificial."

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