Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/25

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Subject: [Leica] Film Winding Again, (was BASic question)
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:03:01 -0500

John Collier wrote:
>
> . . . The M6 requires the three pronged wheelie thing to align the film
properly . . .
>

Ok, now is this the secret to loading the later M-s?  Frankly I quietly
watched the debate on M6 loading.  I've had an M4 for nearly 25 years and
always had trouble loading it.  Ted's film crimp helped a lot but the "drop
the film in, close the bottom, and wind" technique really does seem to work.
Is the "three pronged wheelie thing" the reason the film only pops off the
spool when you are looking at it?  (am I making any sense?)

Mike Durling
KD4KWB
http://www.widomaker.com/~durling/