Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the beginnings, when the first 35's hit the marketplace, it would have been a quite logical design to manually wind the film into a chamber or extra cassette and the advance one picture at a time into the original cassette. No harder than manually rewinding at the end of the roll and much safer. I am sure every 35 mm photographer has experienced the dreaded oops... Steve Unsworth <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote: Except that the Ms are manually advanced cameras, so you'd have to either manually advance 36 frames and then have a way of manually moving the film in the opposite direction, or have an electrical wind on. Steve On 18/3/07 21:26, "Photo Phreak" wrote: > I have always wondered why the "gnomes" never got the idea of winding the > film > out of the cartridge and winding the exposed shot back in. Always seemed > like > a simple idea to me.... --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.