On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Dario Bonazza<[email protected]> wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM, P. J. Alling<[email protected] >>> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> (and did I mention I hate those damned magic needles?) >>> >>> Who doesn't? >>> > > Never had a problem with the magic needles thing. My first SLR has been a MX > and I've done quite a lot af astrophotography with it in the early days. > Changing rolls in the dark has never been a problem for me, as there was no > need to look for film slots in the take-up spool. Just push the leader into > any magic needles and it's done! > > Dario
I found the needles to be exactly the opposite, very fiddly to load. Could never get the bloody things to go in right and stay that way. The best loading system I've used for mechanical-wind 35mm bodies was the Canon QL system. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
