Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think such a modification is listed on Reinhold Mueller's price sheet. Sorry, I don't have his URL handy, and have no details on the specifics. Jeff Kip Babington wrote: > > Probably not feasible, at least not at any affordable price. The M3 counter resets > by sensing the removal of the takeup spool, while the M4 and later have a separate > pin that senses when the baseplate has been removed. The speed loading takeup spool > kit for the M3 allowed you to just shove the film leader down into a slot in the > spool while it was in the camera, ala M4, but you still had to lift the spool up a > bit before loading, in order to reset the counter. There was a nifty little collar > that you could grab with two fingertips to do the lifting, and you only had to lift > it a little way, but you still had that step to take. > > Cheers, > Kip > > williad@webasto.com wrote: > > > I have a single stroke M3 and I would like to have the film take up spool > > updated (replaced) with the M4/M6 style take up spool. Is this possible? Has > > anyone out there had this modification done to the M3 or M2? If so, who did it? > > Thanks, > > Douglas Williams