[Leica] WAS: m6 loading contestNOW " just loading!"

["Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>]

Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>>> a year or so ago, i loaded my m6 with the door swinging open and only
> noticed it after an hour or so of shooting, <<<<

Hi  Kyle,
When Sandy came to work with me she was always in awe of my M6's and how
quickly I loaded, shot a roll, reloaded and back to shooting.

Finally she wanted to learn how to load them, no problem that's part of why
she was working with me.

So it came down to the big day where she was ready to load while on a shoot
and the first roll was successful........accept for....... the back door was
open~! ;-) Murphy's law, if it's going to happen it's going to be right
there in the face of your boss! :-)

Of course I didn't notice it either until, I heard this flap flap as I swung
the camera to my shoulder after a half dozen frames. I'll never forget the
look on the poor girls' face, she almost died on me right there. :-(

But I can assure you she has never done it again loading mine nor now, her
own M6's. :-)

The bottom line on loading an M6 and having moments as above or others
described, usually happen due to becoming "careless or a newbie not quite
paying attention to the finer and simple points of loading!" Or worse, being
overly cautious and screwing up by trying too hard. Or in a panic state of
rush!

Have I ever screwed-up a loading? Why heavens yes many times over the years
and usually when I'm showing someone how easy an M4, 6 whatever, can be
loaded! :-)  Or doing it in a rush in a non attentive mode.

But in reality the M6 is such a piece of cake to load that one can do it
with their eyes closed strictly by feel in a coal bin at midnight! ;-)

ted

Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant

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