Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina, you wrote: >Tom Donovan gave me a priceless tip at the Leica workshop last year. He >showed me how to pleat the end of the film by folding it back and forth a >couple of times. The fold slips down between the spines This sounds to me like a very DANGEROUS practice. Especially "folding it back and forth a couple of times". It only takes one small piece of film to wreck a shutter. Should this "end of film" break off, it could get into places it shouldn't. Maybe not as soon as it breaks. Maybe when you load the next roll. Anyway I wouldn't do it. Art Art Searle, W2NRA, w2nra@erols.com, Lake Grove, Long Island, NY, USA 20 miles east of Nikon USA, 70 miles east of Leica USA