Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] a street ready M3?
From: Arne Helme <Arne.Helme@stelvio.nl>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:07:46 +0100

In message <13f.8539fb5.29844eca@aol.com>, 
TTAbrahams@aol.com writes:
[...]
> An anecdote regarding rewinding! In my youth, I worked for a newspaper in 
>Sweden and being the youngest on staff, I was assigned a handful of battered 
>Leica MP's and M2's. Of course, I was hankering for those new-fangled Nikon 
>F's that just had been introduced! Charlie was one of the grizzled veterans 
>of press-photographers and he was teaching me how to reload fast. Grabbing 
>the M3 by the rewind crank, he spun the camera around, thus rapidly winding 
>the film back. Suddenly he lost the hold on the camera which shot out of his 
>grip, slammed into the wall above my head and without missing a beat, he 
>stuck his hand up and caught it on the rebound. It impressed me to no end and 
>as they say today, "it was sooooo cool".

Hi Tom,

great story!  Now I understand why the M3s I usually see at the 2nd hand shops look so beat up and at the same time have silky smooth film advance and rewind mechanics... ;-)!

- -- Arne


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