Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: Snip: > AThis 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. > > Marc > > Marc, you're dead right. I mounted them on 2 M3s. About half a year later, I used my 3rd M3 without the Quick load kit, and found the film loaded quicker, saver and easier. Plus I did not forget to set the counter to zero. Also on rewind the film didn't want to let go when the end was reached. It sometimes even broke a bit off. Not now anymore, after everything is converted back to original. Regards, Horst Schmidt