[Leica] Leica IIIf and Leica IIIg - the viewfinder

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 2/8/07 9:17 PM, "Leonard Taupier" <len-1@comcast.net> typed:

> Don,
> 
> You mean extend the standard leader by 8 holes? I always extend my
> leaders but end up with about a 20 hole tongue extension, total. I
> agree that the long leaders are a dream to load. All my original
> loading problems went away.
> 
> Len
> 
> 


I have a thumb nail in case I ever take up the guitar again.
It tears  leaders fine outside in the dark on a park bench in the rain.
After about 20 rolls in the past month I've got my loading down way under 20
minutes. I think I loaded it once last week and it went in first try and the
whole thing was less than 5 minutes. Sitting down of course. But not a well
lit area. Boy I was Singin in the rain then! A master of my tools.
I think after a hundred rolls which I certainly intend to take in the next
months with my IIIF I'll be doing it on the walk. Not sitting down. And
while chewing gum. But with low noise levels in the peripherals.


I have found my IIIF to be a great thing for viewfinders in the hot shoe
which isn't hot. I love those darned puppies. Most mine or Cosina
Voigtl?nder. But end they end I'll probably have accumulated Canons and
Nikons and Elmo's and Ilexes and ones of all nationalities. Maybe a Vivitar.
Which I think are made in the Galaxy Xeemar. Or should be.

I've got one now for every focal length I've got except 135. I don't have a
28. Nor 75 come to think of it.

With the M8 viewfinders are a whole diffract ball of wax you'll be using all
kinds of strange ones for different lenses. It will be cool to find out
which ones work the best with what.

Mark Rabiner
New York, NY
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