Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, now that I own enough of them to spare, I'm going to say that the Alden 74 film reloader beats Watson 100's hands down in being able to properly deal with Leitz cassettes. The issue is how well each manages the cassette's opening-closing mechanism. The Watson simply doesn't grip the cassette positively enough to reliably close the cassette after you've cranked on the film. The Alden does it with no fuss, and you don't have to adjust an internal spacer. Also, every Alden I've seen so far is bakelite, and seems to have hardly been used. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html