On 3 Jun 2003 at 9:14, Bob Walkden wrote: > My M3 has the old-style loading where you have to take the spool out, > whereas my M4-2 has the new-style loading. The M3 is really quite slow > to load. The M4 loading system seems to be as good as any others that > I know, though. The Pentax magic needle system has always been quite > good for me, but is no better than the M4, and the M4 is probably > actually better than the Contax RX loading system.
Yeah, I agree, I should have been more specific, my experience is with M4 through to M6TTL bodies. Even though it's good I don't think that the magic needle system is as robust or sure as the M4-6 loading system. Andrew N has a good no fuss M4-7 film loading procedure at his site: http://www.nemeng.com/leica/000b.shtml Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
