Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Rapidwinder and film mis-advance/loading....
From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:22:47 -0400

> Aaaaaaah I'm not that lucky, you bet I've screwed-up loadings and I
> believe any photographer who says he never has might be fibbing a bit. 
:-)

Certainly not intentional fibbing on my part...perhaps my little doggie 
mind just chooses to block the bad experience out...kind of like a bad 
childhood...

> But here is something I do when I load any of my M6s.  I make a couple
> of little folds at the tip of the leader like this	_________/\_/\_

I like that suggestion, thanks!  Now, hopefully, I can get that little 
basket off the original base plate and on to the Rapidwinder....  Perhaps 
if I tape the film to the take-up spool... (again, for the humor impaired, 
that was said in jest).