rob_x2004 Posted November 16, 2007 Share #21 Posted November 16, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I did the 'not checking to see if the film is advancing' thing a few weeks ago. Took out the film from the developing tank, and voila! 1 metre of clear film! D'oh! You are just trying to disguise the fact you put the fixer in first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kent10D Posted November 16, 2007 Share #22 Posted November 16, 2007 Thus commences a newbie's M learning curve. Hi JBA. You have plenty of company on that curve! But once you get it loading an M6 is a snap. As noted by others it's remembering to rewind before popping the bottom plate that can be the problem. You're in Tokyo? Greetings from Yokohama! Pretty soon us Kansai-area Leica users will be able to start a club! Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBA Posted November 16, 2007 Share #23 Posted November 16, 2007 Hi Kent, I lived in Yokohama for several years and just moved to Tokyo last year. We should definitely start our own club . . . but we're in Kanto, not Kansai. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent10D Posted November 16, 2007 Share #24 Posted November 16, 2007 I lived in Yokohama for several years and just moved to Tokyo last year. We should definitely start our own club . . . but we're in Kanto, not Kansai. Damn, can't slip anything past you (oh alright, I got confused ). I came the other way. I was in Tokyo for around 15 years, but have been in Yokohama now for about 22 years. A bit of an old timer (hey, maybe that's why I get confused!). Anyway, it's good to know of other Leica users in the vicinity. Hope to run into you some time! Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBA Posted November 16, 2007 Share #25 Posted November 16, 2007 Damn, can't slip anything past you (oh alright, I got confused ).I came the other way. I was in Tokyo for around 15 years, but have been in Yokohama now for about 22 years. A bit of an old timer (hey, maybe that's why I get confused!). Anyway, it's good to know of other Leica users in the vicinity. Hope to run into you some time! Cheers. Wow, you are an old hand. Now I understand your avatar. I thought it looked like something familiar. I lived in Kyoto for five years during the "bubble" and then studied Japanese literature in college before coming back about five years ago to study at the Inter-University Center in Yokohama. Actually, we should arrange to run into one another at some point, but only after I've got some experience with the M6 under my belt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBA Posted November 18, 2007 Share #26 Posted November 18, 2007 It's official: The M newbie has just succeeded in doing the two stupidest things possible with an M. Having reached the end of my first roll, I removed the bottom of the camera while walking, explaining to my friend how quirky a camera it is to load an unload (pooh-poohing his suggestion that it might be better to sit down to attempt this feat), when the camera bottom plate jumped from my hand and went skittering down the boulevard. To my great good fortune and the glory of Leica, it sustained nary a scratch. Chastised, I proceeded to misload my second roll of film. I then went on to shoot an unprecedented 47 photos on a 36 roll-- the most brilliant photos ever recorded! -- to come to the brilliant conclusion that I must not have loaded the film properly, and to test this premise, this genius among geniuses rewound the film an entire turn-and-a-half straight into the cartridge. Of course, it took the film processor a full 10 seconds to fish the film leader out and revive the roll. (At least I avoided the temptation to throw it out in disgust.) Still, I managed to shoot two rolls over the weekend with quite a few satisfactory results. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aero Posted December 9, 2007 Share #27 Posted December 9, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I did the exact same thing: opened my MP and exposed the first couple of frames. To combat this happening again, I just put a small piece of tape over the film release knob each time I load a new roll. I write the ISO and type of film on the tape, in case I forget what I put in there too... As to the mis-loading of film by the camera, this is a tough one. The camera should really have a way to confirm that the film is indeed advancing properly instead of, say, just coming off the spool or missing the advanced sprockets. Lame. Good luck! -Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotohuis Posted December 9, 2007 Share #28 Posted December 9, 2007 I will not comment on this threat. jzee, all really Leica nerds........ If you're using your camera on a more regular base, you know exactly what is in your camera and this will not happening to you very often. The learning curve for using a Leica M is not too steep and some mistakes can happen but like we are saying in the Netherlands: "Een ezel stoot zijn hoofd maar éénmaal aan dezelfde steen" Best regards, Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilo Posted February 14, 2008 Share #29 Posted February 14, 2008 Don't worry, I did something much worse: when rewinding my second roll on my M6 I felt that the effort I had to exercise to rewind was too much, but I thought the film cartridge was just a bit tight. Half way through it got easier and I thought I was close to the end. When it became really lose I thought the rewinding was completed; but when I opened the bottom I saw that half the film was still on the right side and half on the left!!! And when I was turning the rewind, the film on the right side was not moving. To make the long story short, I had pressed down the rewind lever on the front only half way and therefore the film was not completely free to rewind: as a result it broke half way... I had to throw away the roll, of course. I was just happy I had not broken anything else in the camera.. at least I hope so. Anyway, the winding system seems to be still working.. let's hope for the best.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted February 14, 2008 Share #30 Posted February 14, 2008 Only the last couple of frames are ruined. Unfortunately, the rule of thumb is that those were the best shots on the roll. Worst thing that ever happened to me along this line was the tank lid came off during agitation and 4 rolls of film spilled out into my darkroom sink. Of course, all the lights were on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent10D Posted February 14, 2008 Share #31 Posted February 14, 2008 Ouch. I did something similar a few days ago. I had two rolls of film loaded in the developing tank and then, before even pouring in the developer, proceeded to pull the whole damn lid off when I only intended to pull off the light trap lid. Fortunately this was in relatively low light so I snapped the lid back on and went through the process anyway. Amazingly the serious damage was limited to the edge of the film that was closest to the top of the tank, and I actually got some usable frames out of it. Anyway, I think I'd better find me some tanks with screw-on lids rather than the push-on types I'm using. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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