Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]An error occured while delivering this message. The error is stated below: 554 Transaction failed; too many hops 17 maximum 16 Excerpt of original message: To: alal@bcc.cuny.edu Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 823b1.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:17:54 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 82350.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:17:42 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 82310.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:17:34 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 822d0.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:17:26 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 82260.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:17:12 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 82220.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:17:04 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 821a1.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:16:52 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 82150.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:16:42 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 82110.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:16:34 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 820c0.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:16:24 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 82070.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:16:14 EDT Received: from [199.219.156.8] by bcc.cuny.edu id 82020.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:16:04 EDT Received: from [192.147.236.1] by bcc.cuny.edu id 81f90.wrk; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:15:50 EDT Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA27420; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.misc.net (nobody@mail1.misc.net [212.20.134.3]) by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA27409; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.20.134.225] (helo=[212.20.139.56]) by mail1.misc.net with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 126Jk3-0003ob-00 for leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:42:44 +0100 Message-Id: <v03007810b49a91c64ce8@[212.20.139.56]> In-Reply-To: <ADF806E8F07ED211A6910000F83086E1ACA74F@HRCCEX> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:43:12 +0100 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us From: Christer Almqvist <christer@almqvist.net> Subject: Re: [Leica] revisiting M6 loading woes Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Precedence: bulk Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us X-Mail-From: daemon@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us X-Mail-From: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >LUGers, > >After having no problems loading my M6 for many months, I had a batch of >Kodachrome 64 and Tri-X that gave me some real problems. I think the >problem lies in the little wave in the film just behind the leader that >results from Kodak's loading and/or packaging procedure. When you load the >film in an M6, the wave is positioned just inside the rightmost part of the >shutter mechanism, and can catch and prevent the take up spool from doing >its work. I don't know why this has never happened to me before. The moral >of the story is that if a roll of film is not loading properly, try making >sure that the film wave clears the shutter entirely before closing up. Or >you could try trimming the leader past the wave. > >Jonathan Lee Or: keep the camera back almost closed (1/8" open) when you slide down the film, then open to see that it has gone all the way down, and finally close the back and put on the bottom plate. Do not worry too much, but check that the rewind knob turns as you advance the first two film frames.