[rollei_list] Re: OT: Leitz Neverload Kit
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:17:09 -0700
Really? The silly drop in from the bottom loading system? Bet I can load a
Minolta faster. :-)
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Frank Dernie
<Frank.Dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I have always found the M6 system to be the fastest and best loading system
> of any camera I have used, and Hasselblad magazines the worst.
>
>
> On 29 Sep, 2009, at 15:28, Marc James Small wrote:
>
> At 12:13 AM 9/29/2009, David Sadowski wrote:
>> >The Leica loading style, as introduced in the M4 in 1967, was an
>> >improvemtn in two ways:
>> >
>> >1. Speed. You flip the camera over, put the film in, and you're done.
>> >
>> >2. Less film lost in the leader. Could result in an extra frame per
>> roll.
>>
>> The Neverload Kit was first fitted to M2 cameras sold to the US Army in
>> 1964, and the retrofit kit was available from 1965. I positively HATE the
>> system and have found it frighteningly unreliable. Leitz finally got it to
>> work a tad better by the time they got to the M6, but the system cannot come
>> close to the fine system used in the M3's, a fast, reliable system.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>>
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