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Subject: [Leica] Re: What SHOULD the week at Photokina bring? Open back Mloading
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Sep 27 09:57:25 2004

But it really is a fair comparison, Eric, because the reality today is
that that kind of drop-in-the-roll-and-close-the-door loading is the
norm. ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Eric
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 12:30 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Re: What SHOULD the week at Photokina bring? Open back
Mloading


B.D.:

>You are a member of a strange group, Steve. Lord knows that I am used 
>to Leica M loading after all these years, and can certainly do it 
>quickly. But even after all these years, there is NO WAY I would ever 
>describe it as being as easy as conventional open back loading. I may 
>be a member of a small, odd group, but I have never dropped a Nikon 
>F100 back while loading film, nor have I ever started to put an F100 
>back on backwards... :-)

I'm with Steve.  Not that loading an M6 is easier than one of the
automatic SLRs, but I find loading my M6 easier than my ancient Minolta
X700 where you had to feed the film into just the right place, and then
do some other tricks that I've thankfully repressed from my memory.

As far as manual loading systems go, the recent M series have pretty
good ones.

Nothing beats pulling out a leader, putting it into approximate
position, and then closing the back and letting the camera do all the
work.  I've yet to have a misload on my do-everything Canon SLR.  But
that's not a fair comparison to a manual loader.

--
Eric
http://canid.com/

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In reply to: Message from ericm at pobox.com (Eric) ([Leica] Re: What SHOULD the week at Photokina bring? Open back M loading)