Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]y On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Marc James Small wrote: > At 04:58 PM 6/28/99 EDT, InfinityDT wrote: > >Me too. I installed those spools (and a plastic gizmo on the baseplate) > that > >let you load it with the spool inside, kind of like an M6 (actually, they > >work better, I think) . > > This is the 1426o "Quick-Load" Kit. It was a rather total bust on the > market-place: many Leica users of the '60's referred to it as the > "neverload" kit because of its vile nature. I bought one once, put it on > my M3 for six months and finally got it to work right. Then, I took it off > and went back to the utterly sane normal M3 system, and sold the > "neverload" kit to a collector for about twice what I'd paid for it. > > I guess some folks liked 'em, but, judging from the numbers of unused kits > which surface NIB, I suspect most of them just sat on dealers' shelves for > years. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > The Leitz "Quick load"device was never meant for the M3. It was meant for the M2. For the M3 to activate the film counter you must remove the spool. The M2 is manual film number setting, so you don't have to remove the Quick-load spool. Works fine with the M2. Ed