Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Drop Sherry a line and ask her opinion. By the way, she will get very nasty if you did not trim your film leader correctly! Sherry Krauter Golden Touch Quality Camera Repair 118 Purgatory Road Campbell Hall, New York 10916 914-496-8834 krauter@warwick.net > From: "Barker, J. Madison" <Matt.Barker@KutakRock.com> > > I'm getting better at loading my "new" IIIf (first Leica), but I recently > messed up a leader to the extent that I turned two sproket holes in the edge > of the film into one hole. In other words, I chipped out a piece of film > itself about as big as one sproket hole. I was loading over a table, so I > was able to look around for the film fragment: no luck. Tapped the (open) > camera against my hand: no luck. Blew in the open camera: no luck. Maybe > the fragment came out and I just didn't find it, but maybe it didn't come > out. Can anyone suggest my next step? (And I hope it doesn't involve > sending my just-CLA'ed-with-a-brand-new-shutter camera to a shop....) > >