Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bingo-! I think you got it, Stan, The Man with the Plan! Dan - -----Original Message----- From: Stanley E Yoder <syoder+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 7:09 AM Subject: Re: [Leica]IIIf film loading > For me the problem has been getting the sprocket wheel to engage the >film perfs. In the instruction book for the IIIf (and doubtless other >LTMs) it says to cock the shutter and NOT release it before inserting >the film. I think what this does is to lock the sprocket wheel, so that >when you tighten up the inserted film via the rewind knob, the sprocket >wheel does not rotate and the film has a better chance of its perfs >engaging properly. At least, my success rate seems to have risen since I >began to heed this instruction. > I think the long leader is so that the film initially has only to >engage the near (bottom) sprocket, and not the one deep in the body. >Stan Yoder >Pittsburgh