Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/27

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Subject: [Leica] A Tale of Two Butterflies
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:25:20 -0500
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I can only grimace at the thought of someone of today's generation 
trying to explain how to load today's film into a Leica IIIa or lllf.  
At least, when I started out, the proper leader was already cut!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/27/2016 1:19 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote
>>>>
>> The discrepancies had been bugging me.  It just proves once again 
>> that we shouldn't believe it to be true just because we found it on 
>> the internet.
>>>>
>
> Yes, there was a classic example of this on Youtube when someone 
> posted a video showing how to load a film into a Rolleiflex. Sadly, it 
> was done incorrectly, so any images would have been crap.  The 
> outraged comments were hilarious.
>
> Had a brief look for it just now but couldn't find it again.
>
> Douglas
>
>
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