Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi! I have used my father's M4 for a while now. The greatest camera I ever used! However, I do get a lot of shots which are back focus. Especially evident when using the tele-elmarit at short ranges. At first I though that this was just my own fault, not paying enough attention when focusing. Well, I now pay a lot of attention when focusing, and still I far too many back focused shots - never too short focus. I got tired and set up a home made test target and to my surprise, it seems like the camera focuses about 1-1.5 inches too far away. This is true for all lenses I tried. 35, 50, 90 and 135mm. The strange thing is that the range finder seems to work at infinity, where the two images line up perfectly. The small arm that connects the range finder with the lens in the camera seems to get stuck some times. But only for very short periods of time, and it snaps back when I rotate the focus ring on the lens. Do anyone know what could be wrong? I bet you all know how annoying it is to see that great portrait coming back, with perfect focus on the person's ear. Crap! Thanks Arvid