Desmolicious wrote:
All you do is follow the little diagram which shows to drop film in, with the film leader extended into the 'tulip'. Then close the back and wind on. That's it! Never ever failed for me.
Don't forget to give the film lever a bit of a push to align at the lower shiny metal bar. I didn't do this once, and the film didn't wind correctly. But I realized it and did it correctly after opening.
retrofocus wrote:
Agreed the 90 mm is a bit narrow, but I have no trouble with 28 mm frame lines (28 mm is one of my most favorite focal lengths). Here I rarely look at the lines and simply frame all I see through the finder. It always turns out fairly right on.
After 50mm, 28mm is tied for my second favorite focal length with 90mm. I don't what the heck you're talking about with liking 28mm frame on .72 bodies. Unless Leica made some eye relief adjustment between the M4 and MP ALC that had no 28mm frames I bought a while back and never noticed, there is no damn effin' way 28mm frames are anything but 0.BSx. I would love to be corrected though, 'cuz the new Ultron is only suffering to me in that way.
Desmolicious wrote:
The one thing that is super nice about the M4 onwards compared to the M3/2/1 is the quick load system.
It really is super quick to load IF YOU FOLLOW LEICA's VERY SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS!!!!
Not yelling at you, just all the threads complaining it doesn't work. Even Tamarkin (who is a Leica 'expert'!) has a really weird video showing how to load the camera, using up about half the roll! (ok I exaggerate for effect, but he wasted a bunch of film).
All you do is follow the little diagram which shows to drop film in, with the film leader extended into the 'tulip'. Then close the back and wind on. That's it! Never ever failed for me.
Anyway bringing this digression back on topic, that is one advantage of something like an M4-2 over an M2.
Yes I agree the quick load system is brilliant. The M2/3 is much slower but it doesn’t bother me too much because I never load a film when out shooting.
I am lucky enough to have one of each; an old school jewell (M3) and one with all the mod cons (M6). If I had to limit myself to one the head would say M6 but the heart would choose the M3.
The M2/3 is slower but it is also rock solid. I actually have a 2nd spindle that I can use to preload a roll of film, so all I have to do it drop it in. Never actually used it for that reason, but I could!
I voted M4 because I would rather have more film and the better finder. M6's and TTL's are nice but even with the metering I often just carried an ambient meter and would measure the light and dark areas of the area I was grenwrally shooting and make an evaluation in that way. I felt my results were pretty solid.
Desmolicious wrote:
The M2/3 is slower but it is also rock solid. I actually have a 2nd spindle that I can use to preload a roll of film, so all I have to do it drop it in. Never actually used it for that reason, but I could!
Since I posted that in 2021 I have done this several times!
