Leitz Cassettes

[Neil Purling]

How many different types of Leitz re-loadable casette are there?
I wondered how to recognise the different sorts, and which type is compatible with my 1938 III. The usual source is ebay, and the vendors do not necessarily know much about what they are selling.

P.S. The Nikon re-loadable cassette is supposed to be a copy of the Leitz type.
Would they work in my Leica III I wonder?

[tobey bilek]

Look at your private messages. Click the box upper right. I put one in there yesterday.

Simply put there are two with a lot of variations. Screw and M mount ones. M mounts are shorter and backwards compatable with screw cameras. Screw mt ones can not be used in M cameras.

This use was the last step in eliminating spotting of prints. They can be loaded with a most versions of bulk loaders. Some just wind up what the spool will hold. Some use a bench crank, AFLOO, or some variation. ABLON template to cut the tail properly if you choose the crank in the dark method.

load bulk

You will find the link helpful.

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[Neil Purling]

I use one of those 'Computrol film loaders which will open and close the Leitz cassette with a struggle.

[giordano]

AFAIK the Nikon cassette is a copy of the Contax one and won't fit. Contax cassettes are superficially similar to the Leica ones; the biggest obvious difference is that where Leica cassette shells have rectangular apertures for the film to pass through, on the Contax they are open at one end.

[Neil Purling]

I managed to get a pair of Leitz M cassettes off ebay. I could do with some more.
I have tried to contact Tamarkin, who are said to do a fair trade in Leitz stuff but my message doesn't seen to get through.