[Leica] Re: Leica IIIc - First RF?

[Ken Wilcox <klw.51@comcast.net>]

Uh Howard-

Al you need do is trim the film leader before you go out for your 
shot, and put it back into the container, or better yet, attach it to 
a spare takeup spool. Film loading is NOT a major factor.

Ken Wilcox


At 11:16 PM -0700 6/28/03, Martin Howard wrote:
>Marc James Small attempted to corrupt a poor, unsuspecting Leica newbie:
>
>>The IIIc/IIIf is a wonderful
>>camera to use and the only advantage of this Bessa item is an inbuilt
>>light-meter.  I generally use "Sunny 16" when I am outside, at any event,
>>so I don't really see this as an overwhelming advantage for the Bessa.
>
>Two words: Film loading.
>
>In the time it takes you to get out your pocket knife to trim the 
>leader for the IIIc, our Bessa owner has loaded his camera and taken 
>three shots.
>
>By the time that you have opened your pocket knife, sliced off the 
>tip of your left hand's index finger, cut the leader, refolded and 
>replaced your pocket knife, managed to wiggle the take-up spool out 
>of the bottom of the camera, dropped the take-up spool, hunted 
>around on your hands-and-knees on aunt Martha's shag carpet for the 
>take-up spool, pried the take-up spool from aunt Martha's possessive 
>Yorkshire terrier's growling fangs, got the film leader into the 
>take-up spool, tried cramming the film and take-up spool back into 
>the camera only to realize that you've fed the film leader into the 
>take-up spool the wrong way, correctly aligned film leader into 
>take-up spool, tried getting the now buckled film into the camera 
>body, had to remove the lens and put the shutter on B and stuck your 
>fingers (which are now trying to simultaneously maintain pressure on 
>the shutter release, juggle a Russian 35mm Biogon copy, the take-up 
>spool, a film reel, the IIIc, and a baseplate, all without 
>scratching the huge, bulging rear element of the lens, or dropping 
>anything within reach of the Yorkshire terrier) through the lens 
>mount to guide the film into place over the sproket wheels which are 
>carefully hidden from view, remounted the lens, remounted the 
>baseplate, and wound on the film gingerly hoping that it isn't going 
>to pull off the take-up spool so that you have to do the whole thing 
>once again, our Bessa owner has shot six rolls of film, had them 
>developed, printed ten images, won a photographic competition with 
>one of his shots, and bought an M6TTL .58x with the prize money.
>
>Yes, the LTMs are very nice cameras (I owned and shot with a Leica 
>II) -- but just *perhaps* the Bessa has other advantages than a 
>built-in light meter.
>
>M.
>
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