Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds like she may need a cleaning. Look here: www.lhsa.org/repair.html Golden Touch, DAG, Kinderman, Leica NJ are all well know and respected on this list. Feli On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:41, Arvid Rosen wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feli di Giorgio Visual Effects Supervisor "Hostage" creocollective - feli@creocollective.com