Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] question on M6TTL camera
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:01:19 +0200
 
Anthony

The reason that I tension the film a little after it's loaded is so that I
can see the rewind crank revolve when I advance the film - this tells me
that the film is loaded correctly.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mxsmanic
Sent: 06 August 2001 23:32
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] question on M6TTL camera


Nguyen writes:

> I rewind the film back a bit everytime I load the
> new film into the M6 camera.

Why?  You risk using an exposed portion of film for your first frame or two
if
you do that.
Replies: Reply from "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> (Re: [Leica] question on M6TTL camera)