Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:44 PM 12/13/2000 +0100, Stephen Holloway wrote: >This says nothing about the rapidload kit because you haven't specified in >what way it isn't positive. Isn't the evidence of a spinning rewind knob >positive enough for you? That's all you should need - it's an operational >verification. No, I don't look at the rewind knob on my Leicas, LTM or M. Never had a problem with any save for the M3 with Never-Load Kit. My M4's and M6's have all loaded flawlessly once I figured out using the system, a matter of five or six rolls. In any event, as I have to pull the take-up spool out to reset the frame counter, why use the Never-Load kit? If you have to pull the spool out anyway, do it right, as Wetzlar originally intended. Again, note that I am not the only person who has made this identical complaint on the List, though you seem to have singled me out for vituperation. Why not figure out that a lot of us just plain do not like the Never-Load Kits and do so after having used them. Finally, I haven't a clue as to what Tamarkin or Chatterton or KEH would have to say about these kits. I was speaking about what camera-store owners in the 1960's said about them. (You just missed one of these, Tink Ewald, who died last month. He was a Leica user from 1945 until his final illness, and a camera-store owner to boot, as well as being a founding member of the Leica Collectors' Society, now the LHSA. HE would get peppery indeed about these kits -- had twenty-five of them dumped on him by Leica, and I finally took the last five off of him in 1990 or '91. I was the first person to ask about them in fifteen years!) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!