Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Guy, >Did your camera baseplate come with a basket? >Why do you suppose Leica put it there? >It is there to push the film up so that it aligns with the sprockets.> >If you don't use the basket, you must always personally insure that your >film is pushed all the way up on the take-up spool so the film sprocket >holes align with the camera sprocket. Or you will get a miss load. >I use a basket. >Tom & Ted don't. >It's a personal choice, but one has to wonder, if it is so superfluous, why >Leica puts it there... >Jim Ok, you guys have made your point. I'm feeling foolish here, but admit that since I never used a RW before, I had no idea whether it had a basket of its own, whether it was built in such a way as to render the basket unnecessary, heck, I just never thought about it. Now I've got it, and will do it! Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html