The Motor drive 2 on the OM-4T body power rewinds the film and stops with
the leader out. When I want the leader all the way inside the cartridge, I
have to rewind the last little bit by hand. I leave it out most of the time
now and segregate exposed and fresh film in two different pockets.
John P
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Leyssens <Peter.Leyssens@xxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Olympus mailing list' <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 8:23 AM
Subject: [OM] film loading
>
>> From: "Chung, Stephen (D&B Telecom)" <ChungS@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Yet another advantage of the older Olympus cameras over your typical
>> modern day auto film advance SLR - you can deliberately leave the film
>> leader out when rewinding your Oly whereas many modern SLR's rewind it
>> entirely back into the cannister. So loading film onto developing
>reel
>> is a lot easier for the Olympus owner.
>
>Watch that ! If you have one little piece of dirt while pulling out
>your film, you'll have a stripe over all of your negatives ! It's
>better to wind it all the way in and to open the cannister with a bottle
>opener. It's not so hard if you've done it twice.
>
>Damn, a few years of film loading experience and last week I screwed it
>up with my pinhole negatives ...
>
>
>--
>Peter Leyssens
>Eonic Systems
>
>Personal e-mail : Peter.Leyssens@xxxxxxxxx
>Support mail : support@xxxxxxxxx
>
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