Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Ben, > > I don't want to sound like I'm putting cold water on Mark Rabiner's > response. However, the door is there to "assist loading" simply because if > you had ever tried loading the earlier Leica models with the solid body and > no door, you'd be screaming holy happy toads each time you tried to load > because there wasn't a door. dour doorings I'm not up to tangling over the door issue. I'm sure glad its there. It bails you out when the film loading Gods are not smiling. I'm just saying that when I'm really cranking film, sometimes with a Winder I ignore the door and everything works fine. When there is a lull and I start checking things and making them perfect and I end up with the rewind crank not moving and having to start from scratch. I believe is said as much in the little booklet that came with my new M6 five years ago. I ignored it because I thought I had the inside track on doing the thing with the door and so on. Years later going back to Plan A made me a happier camper. Put this is really a religious issue of appeasing the appropriate Gods at the appropriate times. The Leica Gods of film loading are notoriously cranky and need fresh_________. Mark Rabiner