Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10

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Subject: Re: Caveat Konica Hexar RF (or Re: [Leica] Focusing Hexar RF with Leica lenses) LONG
From: Stephen Gandy <Stephen@CameraQuest.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:57:35 -0800
References: <003f01c04b73$49aed250$e32f10ac@phil> <3A0CAFC4.1429A438@netvigator.com>

May we compare serial numbers ?? I think it's a comparatively low production
camera.

Stephen

ray tai wrote:

> Mine worked perfectly out of the box with all my lenses and even LTM lenses on
> adapters.  I have other issues with it but focusing is not one of them.
>
> >
> >
> > I also bought a Hexar RF body to use with my Leica lenses.  I was very
> > surprised to discover that every Leica lens I owned caused the Hexar RF
> > rangefinder to converge at infinity before the lens reached infinity.  I
> > tried 3 different 50mm Summicrons (rigid, collapsible, DR), 3 different 90mm
> > (Elmar-C, Tele-Elmarit, LTM Elmar w/M-adapt), 28mm, and two different 135mm
> > lenses (Elmar f4.0 and Elmarit-m f2.8).  All had the infinity convergence
> > issue.  All these lenses focus fine with my M2.

Replies: Reply from Paul Chefurka <chefurka@home.com> ([Leica] Hexar RF serial number)
Reply from "Tony Woo" <tonywoo@netvigator.com> (Re: Caveat Konica Hexar RF (or Re: [Leica] Focusing Hexar RF with Leica lenses) LONG)
In reply to: Message from "Phil Eskildsen" <philesk@attglobal.net> (Caveat Konica Hexar RF (or Re: [Leica] Focusing Hexar RF with Leica lenses) LONG)
Message from ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com> (Re: Caveat Konica Hexar RF (or Re: [Leica] Focusing Hexar RF with Leica lenses) LONG)