Re: [Leica] "notoriously crappy" lens

[ralph fuerbringer <rof@mac.com>]

 edward, why be scared poking a summitar?  more than likely it'll be
improved . i'm surprised you havent thought of poking for a downward tilt.
you gain depth of field at no f-stop cost whatsoever! there is no need to
see the schmeimflug effect like you have to with a reflex. you already know
how the unique way summitar will render the foreground: fuzzy infocus.ralph

 

> From: Edward Meyers <aghalide@panix.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 19:49:33 -0400 (EDT)
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] "notoriously crappy" lens
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 Krechtz@aol.com wrote:
> 
>> In a message dated 8/5/00 5:33:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> jbcollier@home.com writes:
>> 
>> << So after 15 to 20 years, you send it in for a CLA and they have to
>> collimate
>> the lens. It is not that big a deal or expensive.
>>>> 
>> My point exactly.
>> 
>> Joe Sobel
>> 
> Hey, wait a second. Do you think someone will undo the
> elements and recollimate them and tighten them down?
> Maybe you'll get charged for it, but who, except the
> factory, might do this...at a reasonable price. And
> how do you know the lens isn't worse when you get it back?
> To tighten the collapsible lenses you just stick a
> small screwderiver between the slits in the brass
> locking parts of the end of the lens tube. This tightens
> the mount holding the elements. I've done it. You do
> a little at a time. Scared? Sure. It works for my
> Summitar.Ed
>