Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] help- what film is in my camera?
From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 05:53:02 -0800

on 1/18/04 5:21 AM, eric korenman at leica_korenman@hotmail.com wrote:

> Ok - it has starting hapening to me (at a tender early age)..
> As a weekend warrior photographer I often pick up my M7 on a Saturday
> morning to shoot.
> Counter often says frame 15 or 16 - but hmmm.. what is in camera? Did I last
> shoot TCN or Fuji Press 400? Rats - no way to know until I finish the roll.
> 
> Any nifty ideas for remembering what film you have in your camera.
> No wise-guy answers please. Llike a post-it on your forehead..
> 
> I have taken to taking a bit of the film's box and slipping it into the
> hotshoe - but it seems rather inelegant.
> 
> forgetful in frigid new england,
> Eric
>

Not many elegant solutions I'm afraid.  I dedicate a body to a film: black
SL for K64, chrome SL for K25, chrome SL2 for K200 ... but then SL bodies
cost a LOT less than an M7 does ... a color-coded sticker on the camera,
perhaps?

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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