Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 film loading
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:40:32 +0000
 
>snip<
>Any Leica  range finder camera always had  and still has  by far the worst
and
>most idiotic type of film loading system devised by man. It is only topped in
>stupidity by having to use the shutter speed dial to switch off the light
meter.
>Nothing can top this.
>
>Maybe in a model 7, we have a normal standard back loading system and some
>little separate switch, to switch  the meter off.
>
>
>Horst Schmidt
>

Loading the M6 is a mixture of dexterity, play, frustration, angst, sense
of achievement, anxiety which I thought, as an owner of the venerable M6, I
must endure as a prelude to taking good pictures.  Of course, I did not
know better until I started using the G2.   

Dan K.