Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny, I see from a later post that you did get the film out. If you ever do this again, keep a black Kodak film holder around the house. Extricate the film as you did, roll it up in the black plastic container, of course remembering to put the lid on, and take it to your local lab. They have a film cassette for 126 film and for running a control strip every day. The lab will transfer your film in a dark box to their cassette and voila! You have your images back without too much trouble. If you don't currently have one of the black plastic film holders, ask for one at your local lab, trust me, they have thousands if the teachers haven't raided the recyclables. Of course, this won't work with the Fuji clear ones, but works especially well with the old aluminum ones. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of SonC@aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 11:11 AM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] torn out by the roots M6 camera: My last roll of the evening last night, I got to the end, and when I went to rewind it, the winding handle went slack. I set it on bulb and checked the aperture, and there was film. I went to dark and felt, and sure enough, my worst fears... the film had come off the cassette and is wound nice and tight on the take-up. Any ideas of extrication? Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information