[Leica] Leica M3 -- all or nothing

[pswango at att.net (pswango@att.net)]

I had a similar incident last week with my CL.  Finished the roll, pushed in 
the rewind release button, and cranked away with the bottom-mounted crank.  
When I felt no tension I decided that I somehow hadn't engaged the film at 
the start of the roll.  Opened the camera and there was the bare-naked roll, 
all outside of the canister, and now exposed to daylight.  Then it hit me:  
on the CL you turn the rewind crank COUNTER-clockwise when you rewind.  I 
was turning it clockwise (like on ALL my other cameras.)  My only 
consolation is that I only got the CL recently and haven't used it a lot.  
Fortunately all I lost was some unimportant party shots.

On a Nikon digital camera I once removed the memory card with the camera 
turned on.  Lost all the images.