M2 Quickload Kit Film Loading Instructions?

[haziz]

<p>I am looking for instructions (or better yet a YouTube style video) on how to load film using the M2 Quickload Kit (fitted in my case on an M3). This is not the Rapidload 3 pronged tulip of M4 and later cameras but the kit that Leica sold as an aftermarket item for M2 cameras etc. Sorry but it seems even less intuitive than the dreaded take up spool of LTM fame.<br /><br />Also is the Quickload take up spool completely removable? I thought it was fixed in the camera. I do know about the chrome core that you have to pull to reset the counter on an M3.<br /><br />Thanks.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Hany.</p>

[Troll]

<p>I installed one on my M3, (several years ago when they were new), and never did learn to use it.</p>

[torben_daltoft]

<p>As the spool has only one slit, you have to turn it so it faces the direction where your film comes out (wtw the rails and back plate). And the spool must be removed to reset the M3 (the chrome dingy is just the handle facilitating this. (If you dont like it, pls make an offer to torben AT daltoft DOT dk))</p>

[torben_daltoft]

<p>Kit came with a sticker</p><div></div>

[robert_hooper1]

<p>These gadgets have the reputation of being just about as time consuming as the stock loading system. When I shot model portfolios exclusively with Leica M2 and M3 bodies back in the 60s, I could load a roll of film in almost no time at all and without looking. </p>

[torben_daltoft]

<p>I had it installed since the late sixties, and always preferred it<br>

One big advantage is that you dont have to "manage" the bottom plate, cartridge, spool and camera w. one hand standing there on a suspended bridge somewhere in Borneo (or elsewhere)</p>

[torben_daltoft]

<p>The OP still asleep?</p>