Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Esteemed LUGers: The rangefinder on my M4P is off by a tiny bit at infinity, just enough to notice two lines where only one should be when focused on a distant flagpole. I sent it in to Gasser's, who checked it and said it looked ok. Yet it still bugs me. Does this small error make any practical difference? Its pretty clear to me the adjustment is not made in the same way as a IIIf or a Canon7, as there is no adjustment screw where I expected to find one. I looked up rangefinder alignment in the archives, and found that the screw that was not there would have adjusted vertical alignment, had I owned an M4, M3 or M2. So I am glad I did not find it, in a way. Someone, I believe it was Mark Small, stated that horizontal alignment was "user adjustable and required a special tool". It looks like there is an arm to adjust an eccentric on the pivot for the rangefinder cam. Can anyone tell me the procedure for adjusting horizontal alignment on the M and what special tool is needed? Of course if the procedure is to ignore small errors until a CLA, I can live with that. Kind regards, Stephen Attaway