Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com> wrote: > Your film/leader should look EXACTLY like it does on the bottom of the > inside of the camera. It's a real no brainer. If you try to 'improve' > on this in any way, guaranteed disaster. Ditto. Soon after I joined the LUG, somebody made the comment to trust the Leica engineers knew what they were doing. Just pull out the film and drop it in the bottom, put the bottom on, and start winding slowly. Watch the rewind crank to make sure you did it correctly. I've had far fewer problems since I starting "doing it by faith" rather than pushing the film down and looking at the open back to make sure the film was in the right place. I'd advance the film before putting on the bottom...just to make sure it was catching. Now, I just let it slide in there, pull out the film just like the diagram shows, and have faith that the Leica engineers are smarter than me. And it works perfectly. The last time I misloaded a roll was when I was trying to hard not to misload. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/