RE: [Leica] Multiple exposures with M6?

[Buzz Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>]

I don't often feel the urge to make multiple exposures.  In fact, I haven't
felt the urge in many years.  However, I know photographers who do and the
process a couple of them follow is to make two separate exposures, each
underexposed perhaps one stop (perhaps more, perhaps less, one must
experiment), and then sandwich them for printing in the negative carriage or
in a glass or glassless slide thingee (oh, the old mind grows weak).

	Buzz Hausner

- -----Original Message-----
From: John Collier [mailto:jbcollier@home.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 1:28 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Multiple exposures with M6?


Well try it. Load some old roll and fire off some frames. Tension the rewind
crank and hold it in position. Flip the rewind lever down and hold it down
as well. Now advance the shutter. Sounds and feels awful to me. Two gears
that are almost meshing fighting and slipping against each other. Long term
outlook? Poor. Just exactly which two gears they are I cannot say but I
would rather not find out. If you need to do double exposures with a Leica
rangefinder get a screw-mount. They are easy to do double exposures with.

John Collier



> From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
> 
> Though they 'say' "DON'T DO IT", do you know specifically why?
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> From:  John Collier
> 
> It is not a stupid question especially as it is not a good idea to try to
do
> multiple exposures with an M camera. The Leica techs that I and others
have
> talked to emphatically state: "DON'T DO IT!" I listened.
> 
> John Collier
> 
>> From: ZaaX@aol.com
>> 
>> This is may be a stupid question but is there any way do multiple
exposures
>> with an M6? I goofed with mine for a while but for the life of me could
see
>> no way to do this. On the other hand this group has amazing knowledge so
if
>> anyone would know it would be someone reading this right now.
>> 
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