Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --On Monday, March 11, 2002 2:46 PM -0800 Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> wrote: > At 02:10 PM 3/11/2002 -0800, Guy Bennett wrote: > >> All right, you've got me confused: is the basket necessary or not, or is >> it a "personal" question (i.e., Ted's works w/out one, Bob's doesn't)? >> >> Tom and/or Tuulikki, if you're reading this, what's the scoop? >> >> Guy > > > 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... As Charlie Brown would say, "Good grief!" Leica put it there because it correctly deduced that there are morons out there who are incapable of sliding the film up onto the sprockets and making sure that the film is taking up properly before replacing the base and going on to make pictures. Amazingly, the basket never seemed necessary with the M2 or M3. Maybe people just got dumber over the ensuing 20 years. And no, I don't use the basket with my Rapidwinders -- in case you haven't noticed, it actually gets in the way of quick reloads. - -- Rolfe Tessem rolfe@ldp.com Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html