Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, John, you're not. I attended a Leica Seminar in the early 70s, and still have two vivid memories from it. One was a first look through Leitz binoculars, which in a normally lit ballroom at night were simply breathtaking, and I've owned a pair ever since. The second was a statement made by the presenter (I forget his name, but he was the guy who did these across the country at the time, and I gather had been doing so for a long time) about loading M4s and later. He said, and this is almost an exact quote, "Let our engineers worry about where the film goes, you just do what we tell you" - which meant drop the film in, make sure the leader goes into the fingers of the pickup spool, then close it up and wind away. The more closely I've followed that advice over the years the more reliable my film loading has been (M5 at the time, now M6.) Cheers, Kip John Bean wrote, in part: > Am I the only one who *likes* the M loading system?