Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:23 PM 12/12/2000 +0100, Stephen Holloway wrote: >They haven't been made for years but are available on the used market. (Mine >was new old stock still in its box - probably drives collectors mad that I >use it). Absolutely not. These things are almost always found as "NOS". This was one of the great Disasters of Leitz production, as the kit a) answered a question no one had asked and b) didn't work worth a damn. Hence, no one bought them. So, immense quantities of these appear from time to time as camera stores clean out their basements (generally, when they are being bought out by a chain ... ) I am an M3 freak but the rapid-load kit is just a simple loser. The nice part about the conventional methodology of the M3 is that it is POSITIVE loading. As with LTM cameras, if you keep to the basic M3 technology, you KNOW the film is properly loaded. Back in the early 1960's, this kit was laughed at as the "Never-Load" Kit, due to the high frequency of problems with it. Buy a Never-Load Kit on E-Bay. Put it on your shelf of Leica Incanabula. Continue to load your M3 as the Gnomes of Wetzlar intended. It works. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!