Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes all M cameras have the flip up back. The problem with loading LTM and M cameras is not getting past the pressure plate, which is you surmised chamfered slightly, but getting past the upper edge of the film gate. A long leader does the trick as it then does not have get past the gate at all. It is pulled horizontally across the gate. John Collier > From: Herbert & Lee Kanner <kanner@acm.org> > > So now, I come to my question. In the first place, did all of the M > series cameras have the hinged section of the back? If not, and, > particularly in the case of the screw mount cameras, how hard was it > to force the film by the pressure plate? Was the bottom edge of the > pressure plate chamfered to ease this process?