Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning Wulff wrote: An M3 loads like a screwmount camera, except you don't have to trim the leader, and you get to look at what's happening. M4 through M7 (with minor variations with the M5) is basically drop the film in with the leader across to the tulip, make sure the film is pushed up to the sprockets, close it up and take pictures. To which I reply: How do you get the film to land across the sprockets without endless fiddling? On the M3, the film always gets caught on the rails or something else in the film path, maybe the rectangle in which the shutter curtains sit, maybe the frame around the back door. On the M6, either the leader gets cocked towards the top of the camera (and WAY out of the sprockets), or, like the M3, the tongue gets hung up on something and doesn't go in quite far enough. Either way, the film doesn't engage the sprockets. Either I fool (<== possibly the correct word <g>) with it before I put the baseplate on, or I remove the baseplate and do so after I realize that once again the camera isn't loaded right. By contrast, I've NEVER, ever, in many rolls of film, had this problem with a screwmount camera. For me, it truly is a matter of drop in film loading with them. I'd really like to know how to load the M's correctly. Obviously I'm doing something wrong. Thanks. Howard Sanner flagstad@mindspring.com The fastest and most foolproof (term used advisedly :-)) system I've ever run across. I've used lots of screwmount Leicas, Nikons, Canons, Konicas, Pentax,whatever, as well as Widelux and Horizon (now _there's_ a hard to load camera!) and most every kind of MF setup. The M4-7 sytem is the best. Thousands and thousands of rolls. About the only screw-up I've managed is not closing the back fully before clamping on the base :-(. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html