Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica IIIc - Film leader
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:37:24 +1000

this is how I was taught, but I'm so summy on film, that I try to get 
every last frame ;-) (and often lose them because of it)


On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 13:23 Australia/Melbourne, Andrew Moore 
wrote:

>
>> >         This is what I do, too. A knife or pair of scissors is all 
>> that's
>> > needed, no special accessories at all. I suppose teeth would do
>> > the trick in a pinch, but I've never tried it since the film in
>> > my bag has always been trimmed.
>
> If you set the shutter to "T" and release, and remove the lens,
> and guide the film with your thumb through the lens mount,
> and wind on as you go (may take several iterations of wind
> and release), you don't even need special accessories such
> as the knife or scissors.  In almost 20 years of doing this with
> my IIIf, I've never had a misload or a failure.  It's not fast,
> but it works.
>
> --Andrew
> NO ARCHIVE
>
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Alastair

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