Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/17
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I have used the metal non-Leica metal cassettes. I have film that is
scratched. I now use Leica cassettes. Now my film is not scratched.
End of story.
Bob (who especially notices that XP-2 loves to be scratched!) Keene
>
>Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:43:33 -0600
>From: Michael Darnton <mdarnton@mindspring.com>
>Subject: [Leica] Re: Reloadable cassettes
>
> This discussion of reloadable cassettes reminds me of the story
>about the man
>in New York City who was seen carrying an elephant gun:
>
>Observer: Why do you have that gun?
>Man: To keep away elephants!
>Observer: That's ridiculous. That doesn't work!
>Man: Of course it does: do you see any elephants around????
>
> Point being, yesterday I realize I probably have literally
>thousands of rolls
>of negatives in my house. For twenty years I used nothing but cheap reloadable
>cassettes, and I never had a single scratch from doing so. Worse yet, when
>I was
>working on a newspaper, I think I ran about 100 feet of film every two weeks
>through the same ten or so cassettes, for three years running. Never a scratch.
>Now, of course Leica cassettes CANNOT scratch film or leak light, but in point
>of fact, under normal circumstances normal cassettes DO NOT scratch film
>or leak
>light, so where's the Leica advantage here, beyond the security of the merely
>theoretical? ("merely theoretical": Fighting words in this group, what? :-)
>
> For those who are naturally nervous, I recommend that you keep
>your film in
>clean cans or in the camera--not lying around, or unprotected in pockets. If
>there's no dirt, they can't get dirty, right? Also, I have to say that I did
>"cheat", and every once in a while cleaned the light-traps on those
>cassettes by
>running a couple of pieces of masking tape through them. And I *never* cut a
>leader through a sprocket hole, leaving a sharp tooth to grab and break off in
>the trap. Save those fives and tens and buy yourselves a nice lens or
>something.
>
> (My apologies to Ken below: I'm not picking on him--it's just that
>he fed me
>the right line to respond to.)
>
> --Michael
>
>
>>>Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:07:51 -0500
>From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
>Subject: [Leica] Re: Reloadable cassetts (was: M6 baseplate)
>
>I never pay more than $5 for them. They are far superior to normal
>cassettes because they CANNOT scratch film or leak light,
>
>Ken Wilcox