Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At the risk of intense heat in reply, trim the leader for you M3and M2. It will slip right in as it does on the screw mounts. Ken Wilcox At 11:27 PM -0400 5/24/02, Howard Sanner wrote: >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 - -- _____________________ Ken Wilcox klw.51 at comcast.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html