Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica]IIIf film loading
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:00:18 -0500

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