Help! difficulty in taking out film from M3

cchsieh · 2nd April 2009

I got a M3 recently, its a very enjoyable camera to use.

However, i found its very very diffucult to take out new film cartridges from Kodak/Fuji from

the body. I have no problem like this if i use the Ap plastic film cartridges.

Could anyone share their experience on this?

brian · 3rd April 2009

I tip my M3 and the film catridges just falls out of it. A little more description of the problem would help, but doesn't sound normal. Do you wind in your film all the way, or leave a little leader out of the catridges?

mamypoko · 3rd April 2009

I'm using the M2 which has the same film spool loading technique as the M3 and its quite easy to take out my film, maybe you could post pictures of your base to see if there are any dents which is preventing the film from coming out easily?

cchsieh · 3rd April 2009

i see nothing wrong cosmetically on the base and no observable deforms on the body.

The film is fully loaded back in.

I cannot just tip over the camera and let the cartridge drop out easily.

I need to pull the cartridge out forcefully and something need a plyer to do so.

The metal rims of that seal the new film catridge (not the self load one) is slightly bigger

than the size of film cartridge insert on my M3.

2nd April 2009	#1
cchsieh New Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 46	Help! difficulty in taking out film from M3 I got a M3 recently, its a very enjoyable camera to use. However, i found its very very diffucult to take out new film cartridges from Kodak/Fuji from the body. I have no problem like this if i use the Ap plastic film cartridges. Could anyone share their experience on this?

3rd April 2009	#2
brian Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Shanghai, China Posts: 388	Re: Help! difficulty in taking out film from M3 I tip my M3 and the film catridges just falls out of it. A little more description of the problem would help, but doesn't sound normal. Do you wind in your film all the way, or leave a little leader out of the catridges? __________________ Leicanaut & Nikonaut @ http://nangka.org/events http://flickr.com/dufffader

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mamypoko Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 176	Re: Help! difficulty in taking out film from M3 I'm using the M2 which has the same film spool loading technique as the M3 and its quite easy to take out my film, maybe you could post pictures of your base to see if there are any dents which is preventing the film from coming out easily? __________________ flickr / blog / twitter / about

3rd April 2009	#4
cchsieh New Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 46	Re: Help! difficulty in taking out film from M3 i see nothing wrong cosmetically on the base and no observable deforms on the body. The film is fully loaded back in. I cannot just tip over the camera and let the cartridge drop out easily. I need to pull the cartridge out forcefully and something need a plyer to do so. The metal rims of that seal the new film catridge (not the self load one) is slightly bigger than the size of film cartridge insert on my M3.