Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Tina, et al... > Tom Donovan gave me a priceless tip at the Leica workshop last year. He > showed me how to pleat the end of the film by folding it back and forth a > couple of times. The fold slips down between the spines of the take-up > spool and is less likely to slip out. Be sure the sprockets are caught, > close the camera and wind slowly the first time or two... I just gave this a try. It surely helps! It's still difficult to get the film to lay flat across thesprockets. When factory-packed film comes out of the plastic container there's a little flat place where the coil emerges through the light trap in the cassette. It's apparently caused by the film leader being coiled within the plastic container. Anyway, it makes this annoying little hump *right* at the sprockets. If the film were to lay flat across the sprockets it wouldn't be as much of a problem to get it started...I think I just need practice. - -Gary