Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D.: >You are a member of a strange group, Steve. Lord knows that I am used to >Leica M loading after all these years, and can certainly do it quickly. >But even after all these years, there is NO WAY I would ever describe it >as being as easy as conventional open back loading. I may be a member of >a small, odd group, but I have never dropped a Nikon F100 back while >loading film, nor have I ever started to put an F100 back on >backwards... :-) I'm with Steve. Not that loading an M6 is easier than one of the automatic SLRs, but I find loading my M6 easier than my ancient Minolta X700 where you had to feed the film into just the right place, and then do some other tricks that I've thankfully repressed from my memory. As far as manual loading systems go, the recent M series have pretty good ones. Nothing beats pulling out a leader, putting it into approximate position, and then closing the back and letting the camera do all the work. I've yet to have a misload on my do-everything Canon SLR. But that's not a fair comparison to a manual loader. -- Eric http://canid.com/