Admiration for ABLON

[nitroplait]

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Don't think there is much point in focusing on the ridiculous prices asked by some ebay sellers.

If you buy enough used Leica gear over time, you will eventually find an ABLON in a corner of one of the boxes.

As this is the "Leica Collectors and Historica" forum, I am fairly confident we will all find an ABLON for free at some point in time.

Only the impatient will have to pay.

 

Anyway, I use mine (when it is at hand) to make sure I get that curved cut around the sprocket hole in first try.
There is a ABLON copy on the current market that actually cuts through the sprocket hole - talk about a useless device!

 

Edited April 5 by nitroplait

[nf3996]

2 hours ago, nitroplait said:

Don't think there is much point in focusing on the ridiculous prices asked by some ebay sellers.

If you buy enough used Leica gear over time, you will eventually find an ABLON in a corner of one of the boxes.

As this is the "Leica Collectors and Historica" forum, I am fairly confident we will all find an ABLON for free at some point in time.

Only the impatient will have to pay.

So true! The only Leica bargain I've ever found in my time as a collector was a genuine ABLON for a fiver (£5) in a box of odds and ends at a camera collectors' fair at Potters Bar a couple of years ago. I'd made do with scissors, copies or home-made versions previously, but it's nice now to use the real thing.

Alan

[Pyrogallol]

Nice to see so many posts about a little gadget that we can manage without.

[TomB_tx]

Well, if you were loading bulk film the old fashioned way: in total darkness measuring out 5-1/4 feet of film and winding it on a bare spool with a Leitz AFLOO mounted on your darkroom bench before slipping the loaded spool into a IXMOO, the ABLON would be a boon.

[Pyrogallol]

When I first started using bulk film in the early 70's I attached a length of string from the ceiling of my bedroom with a bulldog clip tied on. Then the string hung down the correct distance for a 30 exposure film. I clipped the end of the bulk roll into the bulldog clip, unrolled it down to the end of the string, cut it off and with a piece of selotape, attached it to the cassette spool, rolled it up and put it in the cassette. Then trimmed the leader in daylight. I still roll 30 exposure rolls as they fit better in a Patterson developing reel than 36 exposures.

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[TomB_tx]

I'll admit I've used a Watson 66 since the 1960s, and trim the leader with scissors on my pocket knife. I have used an ABLON on occasion, but waste less film just using scissors.