[rollei_list] Re: Difficult To Load?
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:53:39 -0400
At 03:56 PM 8/2/2010, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>2010/8/2 Hauke Fath <hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> The pre-war Contax spool I have here has both a symmetrical middle slot, to
>> which you'd have to tailor modern film leaders, and a longer, asymmetric,
>> wave-formed slot. The latter would, I guess, work perfectly with today's
>> film leader shape.
>
>Yes, that is my spool too; thanks to Marc post I read again the
>instructions to load the Contax II with 35mm cartridges and discovered
>that my taking spool has the longer wave-formed slot like you
>described, however this slot external part is broken close to the
>basis for my spool, the regular film leader has almost nothing to
>held it in the spool and then I only can use the shorter slot by
>trimming the film leader.
>Anyway this is not a serious problem, if you think to shoot a lot of
>film you only need to prepare the film leaders, it's a touch to trim
>them after you got practice.
Carlos
You might check my FS listings on Friday ....
Marc
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Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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