I have to agree I much preferred the old fashioned takeup spool on my Spotmatic.
At 01:58 PM 3/6/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Clive, > >I'd venture to say that more people have had trouble with those >squirrely "Magic Needles" than they currently do with the MZ >autoloading. I have done both for many years and have only had 2 or 3 >bad loads on the automatic system and many more than that on the >"Magic Needles". In fact, my old Nikon FM was far easier to load than >the "Magic Needles." As you can probably tell, I am not a fan of those >"Magic Needles." > >Bruce Dayton > > > >Wednesday, March 06, 2002, 1:38:28 PM, you wrote: > > >snip< > >CW> Contrast this with the 'easy, automatic' loading of my MZ-5n, >CW> which frequently takes several attempts to get the leader to >CW> engage properly. Another example of Shel's Unnecessary Automation >CW> (TM). <g> >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .