Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]my 2 i think it has to do with the age of the film as well sometimes it is really kinked where it stuck out of the canister and i feel that that interferes somewhat with the operation also i notice that on an old m3 with a quickloading spool things often go better the same goes for the plastic thing that pushes the film into the uptake spool when i received the very nice Rapidwinder http://www.rapidwinder.com/ i noticed that the plastic thing(tulip) was missing and in the user manual it was mentioned that in tests the thing makes no difference except that it is in the way in the archives i think you,ll find many good ways and comments how to load properly and salvage duds regards simon jessurun - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: [Leica] disaster with the first roll? > One complaint about the Ms is of course the bottom loading. Yes I > understand that some people like it a lot too. When I rented the M6, I > thought the bottom loading is pretty neat and didn't have any trouble. > > Tonight I was finishing the first roll (Provia 100F 36 exp) on the brand > new M7, shot 37 went past. Cool. 38, OK. 39. Hm... 40? The rewind crank > rotated when I winded the lever and there was some tension. 41? Uh Oh, > something must be wrong. In my panic, I didn't think about trying to > rewind. Opened the bottom plate and SH*T - there were film out on the > spool! Replaced bottom plate. Rewind - it certainly did not feel like I > have to wind the whole length's worth... > > So - is it possible that my M7 has a problem and that the take up spool > does not pull in a full frame's worth? (e.g. for argument sake, each > winding on the lever only pulls in half of the frame or whatever) Or is it > possible that the M7 just giving me lots of extra frames? If latter, what > is the chance that there are some salvageable pictures on the roll? Should > I go ahead and develop it? > > I then load in one of the those 12+3 roll as a test, and I got 18 "shots" > on the counter. > > Arrgghhh.... > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> > <http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo> > On-line orders, support, and listservers available on web site. > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html