This is the Pain of Loading Film Into an Old Leica II from the 1930s

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Michael Zhang

Renowned photojournalist David Burnett just posted this short 2-minute video showing how you load film into the old screw-mount, knob-wind Leica II, a rangefinder introduced in 1932.

“Loading the unloadable 1932 Leica II,” Burnett says. “It’s not that easy!”

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