I have always thought that the feel of the Leica, firing the camera and flipping the lever to advance the film and cocking, is the best feel of any camera. Unfortunately for Leica I prefer slrs so I have had to obsess on Hasselblads instead. Tough life but someone has to live it.
Well, good for you. You're just lucky I guess. That there are a fair number of Leica people who obsess over all manner of inane minutia cannot be denied however...they obsess over all manner of stupid shit like which way the shutter speed selector turns, which way the lens focuses to infinity, zinc alloy or stamped brass top plate, brass gears or steel gears, blisters in the finish, black anodized vs black paint, on and on and on...sometimes, I wonder whether these fools ever even run a roll of film through their cameras.
On the west coast, Sambos was Dennys. They're still around but fading.
There is an original Bob's Big Boy statue at a house on Las Flores Canyon in Malibu. Visible from the street.
After you load your film make sure that the rewind crank is turning as you crank the film advance. If it is, then the film is being advanced properly. If the rewind crank isn't turning then the film is not advancing properly.
One thing I will say though, for those of us who bulk-load our film, unless we cut the film leader exactly the same way prepackaged film is cut, the load and take-up process for the Leica SUCKS. My Nikon and Canon cameras have zero problems taking my hand-cut leaders. Those same leaders in the Leica? Forget about it. What a pain.
Watch a couple Internet loading demonstrations .I fought it at first. Now I can just drop the film in the camera, follow the diagram. I drop the film in crank it just a wee bit to get tension on the film. Put the bottom on, crank it to make sure that the rewind crank is turning. Advance to zero and go. I don't fiddle with bulk loading any longer. The M6 series isn't fussy you just need to learn the tricks.One thing I will say though, for those of us who bulk-load our film, unless we cut the film leader exactly the same way prepackaged film is cut, the load and take-up process for the Leica SUCKS. My Nikon and Canon cameras have zero problems taking my hand-cut leaders. Those same leaders in the Leica? Forget about it. What a pain.
The fact that you have to "learn tricks" that you don't have to learn on any other camera tells me that the M6 is indeed fussy.Watch a couple Internet loading demonstrations .I fought it at first. Now I can just drop the film in the camera, follow the diagram. I drop the film in crank it just a wee bit to get tension on the film. Put the bottom on, crank it to make sure that the rewind crank is turning. Advance to zero and go. I don't fiddle with bulk loading any longer. The M6 series isn't fussy you just need to learn the tricks.
No tricks are required. Drop in the film cassette, pull enough film out so that the leader is wirhin the tulip (as shown in the diagram in the camera), reattach the baseplate and fire off a few frames until the rewind knob is turning. That's it. I've done this for years on my M4 and M-A, both of which have the same loading mechanism as the M6, and have never mis-loaded a roll.The fact that you have to "learn tricks" that you don't have to learn on any other camera tells me that the M6 is indeed fussy.
+1No tricks are required. Drop in the film cassette, pull enough film out so that the leader is wirhin the tulip (as shown in the diagram in the camera), reattach the baseplate and fire off a few frames until the rewind knob is turning. That's it. I've done this for years on my M4 and M-A, both of which have the same loading mechanism as the M6, and have never mis-loaded a roll.
One thing I will say though, for those of us who bulk-load our film, unless we cut the film leader exactly the same way prepackaged film is cut, the load and take-up process for the Leica SUCKS. My Nikon and Canon cameras have zero problems taking my hand-cut leaders. Those same leaders in the Leica? Forget about it. What a pain.
No tricks are required. Drop in the film cassette, pull enough film out so that the leader is wirhin the tulip (as shown in the diagram in the camera), reattach the baseplate and fire off a few frames until the rewind knob is turning. That's it. I've done this for years on my M4 and M-A, both of which have the same loading mechanism as the M6, and have never mis-loaded a roll.
Not so fast, buddy!Instead of tricks, I should have said, look at the diagram on the camera. Voila!
Yeah, that!Buy a leader template and the shape will always be correct and load correctly.
Well, good for you. You're just lucky I guess. That there are a fair number of Leica people who obsess over all manner of inane minutia cannot be denied however...they obsess over all manner of stupid shit like which way the shutter speed selector turns, which way the lens focuses to infinity, zinc alloy or stamped brass top plate, brass gears or steel gears, blisters in the finish, black anodized vs black paint, on and on and on...sometimes, I wonder whether these fools ever even run a roll of film through their cameras.
Some people are collectors, so what. Then you have all those other fools who obsess over which Nikon F is he most durable or whether the FM3a has a plastic gear in the shutter or not or if the FE is better than the FM or whether mechanical cameras are "better" than electronic ones or whatever other "stupid shit" gets asked on a daily basis in photrio.
...and cogs that engage the film. The Leica has none of that.
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