Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:43 AM 3/13/2003 -0800, Richard F. Man wrote: >...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... >... The story has a happy ending! Turns out that I was an idiot and I misread the counter :-) So I was at frame 26 or so and thought it was 36! Then I panicked etc. Well, taking off the bottom plate fogged the edges just a little bit and all but one of the pictures were fine. Wheeeeee! // 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