Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/06

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: time to upgrade - advice sought
From: royzart@connix.com (Roy Zartarian)
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 07:59:38 -0500

>This is very interesting. I've never heard about it before. I bought my M4-P
>about a year ago and I never had any problems since with feeding the film
>into the camera (using Kodak Tri-X rolls). I just pull the film until it's
>inside of the right spool, then close the body and shoot two blind pictures.
>I usually get 38 or 39 pictures per roll. Just luck??


At the risk of sounding like one of the "me too" consumers of bandwidth, let
me echo Edi's observations at least re the M4. I at first had some
difficulty in making the transition to the M4 loading system from the M3. I
found it necessary to thread the film into the takeup spool, then close
everything up. The combined pressures of the back and the baseplate seem to
make everything work. Of course, I still confirm this act of faith by
watching the rewind knob turn as the film is advanced.

Roy