Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Charles E. Dunlap" <cdunlap@rupture.ucsc.edu> wrote: > Russars are hit and miss. [...] I haven't had the problem with the front > element that the two of you refer to. What I have seen is softness (heck, > clearly blurred) in the bottom right corner of my images. I usually shoot > at f/16, so this must be a grinding error in the lens. I don't see nearly > as much blur in the bottom left. I can't say yet about the top. Have you compared this with what you get with other non-retrofocus lenses of comparable focal length? Sounds equally possible that the pressure plate in the camera is misaligned. This happened to me after dropping the camera onto concrete; I only noticed the effect with my Canon 19mm, longer lenses didn't show it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- jack@purr.demon.co.uk - Jack Campin, 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE