Well, FWIW, I have a much easier time with the Needles in my MX than I do with the "conventional" take-up spool in my Spots. I haven't really used anything more modern than an MX, so my experience is limited, but my favourite loading system by far is the on on my old (now stolen) Prakticas - never a mis-load with them.
regards, frank Raimo Korhonen wrote: > I just had the experience of loading a manual camera with conventional take-up spool >(a Voigtl�nder Bessa-R if you want to know) and IMHO the magic needle system is 1) a >lot easier and 2) more reliable. In my 22 years of experience of the magic needle >system I have misloaded only once, with LX. And with the winder attached to ME it >seems to really grasp the film end very tight. > All the best! > Raimo > Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
