Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Bulk fim loading - Tom A. & M6
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@umcc.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:04:46 -0500

I replaced the baseplate on my M6 with an M4-2 baseplate in order to use
Leica cassettes.

kw

> Tom - Have you or any other LUGger had a problem with some of the Solms
> M6s not being able to open the Leica cassettes.  Marc Small says that he
> has an early Wetzlar version that works fine but he thinks that Solms took
> the mechanism out on later models for some reason.  Does this have any
> bearing on the working of your winder?
>========================================================
> In a message dated 98-02-10 00:05:21 EST, you write:
><< between 37-39 exposures per roll. I have made a little device, similar to
>the
> Leica Handwinding stick ( which I use for my Leica cassettes) that holds the
> spool and that you just "spin" to spool up the film. The Leica reloadable
> cassettes are great, but they require some dexterity to use and with some of
> the new film bases, Tech Pan in particularly, it is almost impossible to rip
> off >>


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