Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Trimming film for the Leica LTM
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:54:59 -0500
 
At 07:48 PM 3/1/2001 -0800, Johnson Cheung wrote:
>
>Granted this is not something easily done while in the
>heat of action, but loading an LTM is never easy. the
>great thing is one no longer has to trim film in
>advance and worry about things like how many rolls of
>trimmed film for the LTM and how many rolls of the
>untrimmed version for the SLR (or M6 or whatever) as I
>used to do before the D-30. 

Well, properly trimmed film will work in the M6 or in an SLR, but untrimmed
film will not work in an LTM camera properly.  So, trim ALL your film, and
it's not a worry.

Marc

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