Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc- It HAS to be intuitively obvious how to load a Leica! It took me fifty years, it seems, before I could do two things at once- unfortunately, it was sneezing and pissing my pants at the same time! However- loading the M6 or the IIIf,b,c seems so obvious that I have never had a problem! Do you reckon some people feel it has to be complicated, or it isn't...art? I admit, I DO trim my film, but I don't count that as cheating! Dan - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 3:56 PM Subject: [Leica] Conventional M3 Loading > At 05:38 PM 12/13/2000 +0100, Stephen Holloway wrote: > >Original loading: > > > >Flip the baseplate off, old film falls out, put in your pocket. Turn the > >camera upside down in your left hand, hold the baseplate between 3rd and 4th > >fingers pull the spool out, it's in your right hand - oops, you just ran out > >of hands. Stop, put some stuff down and you know the rest. > > Actually, what most folks do is to put the spool in the pocket together > with the baseplate. Let the camera hang down on the strap. Remove the > film cannister with one hand, the take-up spool with the other. Connect > them as Father Barnack intended. Turn the camera upside down and insert > the two film spools into the base of the camera. Once this is in place, > remove the base plate from the pocket and install it on the camera. > > I also do a LOT of street shooting and have never had a problem loading an > M3. (But, then, some folks on the Rollei List complain about loading a > Rolleiflex TLR while walking, and I don't have a problem with that, either.) > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >