Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]so last week i went out with some friends and didn't feel like carrying a big heavy camera ... "hey!" i thought, "I'll bring the Leica!" My M6 has had the same roll of film in it since 2002 so finishing it off sounded like a good idea. The first three photos I took I realized later I had the aperture set to f22, despite it being dark out rapidly everyone got very tired of me shouting "wait! wait! I need to focus this!" no matter which way I turned the focusing ring, the rangefinder seemed to go the opposite direction for what I needed. The most embarrassing part though was that when the roll had ended -- I couldn't remember how to get the film out. For several minutes it escaped me that one needed to flip a lever to enable the rewind knob to spin backwards and then for some reason, I had it in my head that pulling up on the rewind knob would pop the back out. The real kicker? My photos were awful. This is the best of the lot: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2007/mimi.jpg Whatever part of my brain was being used in the past to properly operate a Leica is now filled with baseball statistics and lists of people who have won on Survivor. kc