Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Film Transport - Leica IId
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 23:17:18 -0500

At 11:40 PM 2/1/98 +0000, Roy Zartarian, bird-watcher, dog-lover, general
great guy, wrote:
>Yup.  That's what happens when you use modern film cassettes in
>a screwmount body.  The original Leica film cartridges were a tad
>longer than today's disposable (oops - recyclable) counterparts and
>kept the film properly positioned.

Of course, the text-book solution is to bulk-load film and shoot with Leica
cassettes.  Get the old ones, the IXMOO's, the ones with the brown knob.

Marc


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