Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Which winder is better , Leica's or Tom's? Ted Grant wrote: >daniel confessed: ;-) > >>Last night i was downtown trying to do some handheld night shots with the >>noct. I also had my new motor on the camera. It's about a 15 block walk >> >from > >>my apartment, and on the way there are a few shady areas, so i put my >> >camera > >>in the bag for one particular block without turning off the motor drive. >>Upon reaching my destination i pulled out my trust m4p and noticed i had >>gone from frame 1 to 38. Since i use a soft release i always have one or >> >two > >>pictures of my bag but never an entire roll.-daniel mcclenaghan<<<< >> > >Cool lesson Dan! ;-) I bet you'll never forget that one, not to mention a >few others on the list learning what not to do using a battery operated >motor on the M. > >Gee using a Tom A RapidWinder I've never encountered this shooting from >frame 1 to 38 with a couple of loaded M's in the bag. ;-) Sometimes manual >is best! ;-) Beats the heck out of 38 blank inside the bag frames. :-) > >But then by the wildest of possibilities you probably could still use the >roll after re-winding rather than dumping it. Because in the bag surely the >exposure of the film would've been negligible if any. >ted > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html