Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica film cartridges
From: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 22:41:52 -0400

At 07:05 PM 8/12/02 -0700, Jack Herron wrote:
>Hello,
>    I am new on the list, and admit I joined primarily to get some
>information.
>    I have an M3 and two IIIC's, so I am a user, and collector.  I recently
>purchased three of the old metal film cartridges made by Leica, and would
>like to use them.  It is evident how the camera opens the cartridge, but I
>admit I have no idea how to load them.  The cartridges are too long to fit
>in either the Lloyd's or Watson type bulk loaders, and if they did fit,
>there would still be no way to open/close the cartridge door will the loader
>was closed.
>    Does anyone on the list use these things?  How do you get the film into
>them?

Trust me, the Leica cassettes will work magnificently in the Watson loader;
 it has the proper cam to close them after you have spun the film into
them.  I believe they also work on the Lloyd's loader, but I'm too damned
tired right now to go upstairs to check.

System compatibility is great, and Leica cassettes, in one of two forms,
will fit every Leica from the original Standard to the middle-range M6.

Marc

msmall@infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
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