Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:13 AM 11/16/1999 EST, MicroGrid@aol.com wrote: > >This entered into my debate over a M5 or M6. I thought I read somewhere, >probably here that I could buy an M4 base plate, and it would function on an >M6. The baseplates have to have a "cassette lug" to allow use of the Leica cassette; the purpose of this is to open the Leica cassette when the baseplate is closed -- then, there is no light-trap at all, and the film moves without physical contact of any sort. Thus, film will NEVER be scratched with a Leica cassette. The early M6's (Wetzlar-built) had the cassette lugs in the base-plate. The later ones do not, but the M4-2 baseplate is available as a replacement. The Leica motor drive does have the cassette lug. I regularly use Leica cassettes on my M3 and M6. Oh! And you can drop them, all day long, and they simply cannot pop open without a REAL blow, such as that administered by a 10-ton machine press. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!