Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don said: > Au contraire, Sonny. If you understand how the retriever works then you can > indeed pull a leader out. But, why put a fold in the end if you know you > can pull it out? > Hmmm Don, here's the deal. I was trying the Tina trick a couple months ago, because my M6 sometimes doesn't behave magically when I just jam the leader in like some people seem to be successful at. (PLEASE EVERYONE, DO NOT RESTART THAT DANG THREAD!) Anyhow, I had just loaded (successfully) a fresh roll of Velvia 36 exposure in my M6, and before I went out, I got a call that I needed to shoot some color neg. Normally, that would be easy; get the other camera. But my CL was off getting a little touch-up, so I carefully rolled the film back, a little too far, and into the cassette. No problem. I've used one of those dandy little retreivers for many years, successfully dozens of times. Not this time. I concluded it was the little accordian folds that kept it from doing the trick. Regards, Sonny