Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What's even better is the R8 with the motor-drive. The drive automatically leaves a tail for just this purpose and you don't have to even worry about the feel of the rewind. If you want the tail all the way in the canister, you just hit the rewind button one more time. Bill in Denver - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tristan Tom Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:53 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Cc: leica@topica.com Subject: [Leica] Benefits of Leica M film loading/rewind system One of the seldomly mentioned benefits of the Leica M camera is the film loading/unloading system. For instance, I can easily rewind the film by feel in order to leave the leader out. This is something that most other cameras (esp. SLRs) have to either be programmed to do, or in many cases, have to be sent to a service center to have modified to leave the leader out (Nikon F100 is one example). With my Leica I often rewind the film without having shot the entire roll. I leave the leader out, and mark which frame number I was at and then put another kind of film in, etc..When I reload a half shot roll of film, I shoot through to the frame number where I left off by leaving the lens cap on, and setting the camera to the fastest shutter speed, smallest aperature and focus at infinity. Seems to work well! Tristan Tom <http://www.tristan.net/>