[Leica] Rewinding M6 without "R"-switch.

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

If, as Ric said and the sprocket holes ripped out, you might want to be 
pretty careful about getting any debris out of the film chamber. You 
definitely don't want to have small chips of film floating around where they 
make work their way into the shutter mechanism.

Teaching high school students who have never shot film before, I often see 
both the torn-film and ripped-sprocket scenario. With some cameras, the 
pressure of rewinding against a still-locked sprocket shaft can damage the 
mechanism, but the M is pretty stout (that's why we love'em) and can stand 
it.


--- On Sat, 3/14/09, Jussi Sallinen <jussi at sallinen.name> wrote:

> From: Jussi Sallinen <jussi at sallinen.name>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Rewinding M6 without "R"-switch.
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 8:20 AM
> Alrite, so atleast the M6 should be fine then. 
> 
> Thanks for answers!
> -- 
> -Jussi Sallinen, +358 40 700 7600
>               jussi at sallinen.name
>          http://www.sallinen.name
> 
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 06:09:49AM -0700, H. Ball Arche
> wrote:
> > 
> > That, or the film (or the tape anchoring it in the
> cassette) breaks, leaving all your exposed film wound around
> the take-up spool.
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Sat, 3/14/09, Ric Carter
> <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Rewinding M6 without
> "R"-switch.
> > > To: "Leica Users Group"
> <lug at leica-users.org>
> > > Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 7:54 AM
> > > I think the sprocket holes in the film would be
> torn is you
> > > did not use the switch.
> > > 
> > > I have not tried it.
> > > 
> > > Ric
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mar 14, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Jussi Sallinen
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > Another question..
> > > > 
> > > > Is rewinding an M6 possible without using
> the
> > > R-switch,
> > > > cause I'm not sure if I did use it
> yesterday or
> > > not.
> > > > I guess it brakes something if I didn't
> use it?
> > > > 
> > > > M6 seems to work ok, so I might just been
> lucky and
> > > had used the R-switch.
> > > > 
> > > > ---Jussi Sallinen, +358 40 700 7600
> > > >              jussi at sallinen.name
> > > >         http://www.sallinen.name
> > > > 
> > > > 
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