Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard Sanner wrote: >>On the M6, either the leader gets cocked towards the top of the camera (and WAY out of the sprockets), or, like the M3, > the tongue gets hung up on something and doesn't go in quite far enough. Either way, the film doesn't engage the sprockets. > Either I fool (<== possibly the correct word <g>) with it before I put the baseplate on, or I remove the baseplate and do so > after I realize that once again the camera isn't loaded right.<<<< Howard mon ami, The M6 is so easy to load you should be able to do it successfully everytime walking backwards in the dark with your eyes closed ;-) Now that's the kiss of simplicity. I fear you fiddle too much.. :-) Think M6 only I don't care about the others. Take the roll with leader extended and drop right into the camera, leader between the tongues of the take-up spool or the tulip, as some call them. A slight touch downwards on the film into the tongues and if they don't go too far, don't fiddle, just leave them and replace the base plate. Now advance slowly and watch the rewind knob to see that it turns. Now start rewind action and just take up the slack. That done, make a couple more exposures and trip shutter, meanwhile watching the re-wind knob turn. At this point there isn't any reason why the knob doesn't turn indicating perfect loading of the film. Honestly, the M6 is an absolute no brainer to load it's so simple. I feel you may have listened to too many fiddle artists and not just put the roll in, put the leader between the tongues, replaced base plate, advanced film and that's it. Try this and if you still have a problem come back to me private and we'll see what can be done to get this out of your face. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html