Bill, This has certainly been a good learning experience for me. To think how many years I have dealt with magic needles the slow, fiddley way! No more! I almost want to buy another magic needles body just to practice and find the joy of reliable, fast loading.
Thanks, Bruce Dayton Thursday, March 07, 2002, 2:27:20 PM, you wrote: WR> ----- Original Message ----- WR> From: Bruce Dayton WR> Subject: Re[2]: ME super film take up spool >> Bob, >> >> It certainly sounds like I load about the same as you. I WR> never really >> thought of it as greed, but I don't pull extra slack out. The >> description that everyone gives seems rather slow to load. WR> That could >> be one of my problems. Many times I am in a hurry - wedding WR> timing or >> whatnot and I just find magic needles to be bothersome. WR> Well Bruce, using the method that Shel described, I can load a WR> manual load camera (it doesn't matter if it has Magic Noodles) WR> in somewhat less than 10 seconds, from the moment I open the WR> camera to the moment it is ready to shoot. WR> I just timed it. WR> This method was taught to me by the pro I mentored with as being WR> the fastest, and most reliable loading method he had discovered. WR> He was a wedding photographer, primarily, and speedy film WR> changes were very important to him, as was reliable film WR> loading. WR> I can see having problems loading a camera if the cassette is WR> already in the film bay. It is just not an intuitive way to do WR> the job. WR> William Robb WR> - WR> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, WR> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to WR> 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 .
