Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Homage to Jim Shulman... http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Opus And a kid shot... http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Hayden1 BTW - what is it about the gallery and color...these same images, same monitor, are brighter and have better color before loading into gallery. On 9/12/05 12:13 PM, "Jim Nichols" <nicholsj@edge.net> wrote: > I have been reading all of the advice given, and would like to offer some > comments. I have been using a Leica IIIa for over 50 years, and also use a > IIIf. First, in my experience, the position of the rewind knob when > loading > film is completely irrelevant. It can be either pulled up or left down. > Second, the position of the Advance/Rewind lever does not seem to be > important > when loading, although it must be set to "A" before advancing the film. > From > the sound of this thread, it appears that this is a camera with which the > user > is just now becoming familiar. Is it possible that the takeup spool is > not > the correct one, or that it does not fit tightly on the takeup post? It > seems > he is doing the right things, but may have an equipment problem which has > gone > unrecognized. Finally, the most important last step when loading film is > to > be sure that the cassette and the takeup spool are pushed into the camera > as > far as they will go. I also trim the leader to get best resu! > lts and simple loading. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information