Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/12

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Subject: [Leica] Two PAW offerings...
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Sep 12 14:13:08 2005

Wow, what a strong kid shot! Is she holding a table in the Superwoman way?
Thanks for showing,
Philippe


> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:21:52 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Two PAW offerings...
> 
> Homage to Jim Shulman...
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Opus
> And a kid shot...
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Hayden1
> 
> BTW - what is it about the gallery and color...these same images, same
> monitor, are brighter and have better color before loading into gallery.
> 
> 
> On 9/12/05 12:13 PM, "Jim Nichols" <nicholsj@edge.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have been reading all of the advice given, and would like to offer some
>> comments.  I have been using a Leica IIIa for over 50 years, and also use 
>> a
>> IIIf.   First, in my experience, the position of the rewind knob when 
>> loading
>> film is completely irrelevant.  It can be either pulled up or left down.
>> Second, the position of the Advance/Rewind lever does not seem to be
>> important
>> when loading, although it must be set to "A" before advancing the film.  
>> From
>> the sound of this thread, it appears that this is a camera with which the
>> user
>> is just now becoming familiar.  Is it possible that the takeup spool  is 
>> not
>> the correct one, or that it does not fit tightly on the takeup post?  It
>> seems
>> he is doing the right things, but may have an equipment problem which has
>> gone
>> unrecognized.  Finally, the most important last step when loading film is 
>> to
>> be sure that the cassette and the takeup spool are pushed into the camera 
>> as
>> far as they will go.   I also trim the leader to get best resu!
>>  lts and simple loading.
>> 
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