Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:41 PM 1/21/2000 -0800, Ted Grant wrote: >Like yourself,- I was going like a whirlwind one day and figured I mut have >set a record for reloading my M6, when a short time later after several >exposures....... I discovered the backplate swinging in the breeze! Hell it >was daylight and I still missed it happening until sometime after loading >took place. Lost the roll of course. > >But it can happen to anyone of us, if we are rushing! That's what creates >the screw up. Fortunately I've only done it once! That I can remeber!;) > Sure, Ted, but we know you well enough to KNOW what you did: you wrapped the camera in some of your Astral Undernickers, poured a bottle of SHARPO (TM) over the whole thing, put on a Trilby hat, had at some single-malt Scotch, wrote out a runic incantation with your Rapidograph (TM) pen, and sat back. Then you handed the mess over to your Stalwart Assistant and told HER to sort it all out. A wise man, by all accounts. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!