[Leica] M8 focus shifts

[cummer at netvigator.com (Howard Cummer)]

Hi Dante,
Enjoy your musings about lenses very much.
On 1 Apr 2007, at 10:54 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 09:42:54 -0400
> From: Dante Stella <dstella1@ameritech.net>
> Subject: [Leica] More M8 questions
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> 2.    Is the 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M asph focus shift a real problem or
> internet bunk?  This was the lens I was really looking forward to
> using on the M8, but there seems to be some indication that it
> focuses correctly only from f/1.4 to f/4.

Can you give me some internet sites about this? Based on my personal  
experience, I think it is bunk having used the 35 Lux Asph on my M8  
for about two months and not noticing any focus shifts above f4.0  
(which would be covered in my simple world by greater depth of field  
if it exists). Of course I shot 200 plus pictures on the pre  
productionM8 in Vancouver last August and I didn't notice the magenta  
shift until much later. ;-)

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> 3.    Do 50/1.4 Nikkor (LTM) lenses exhibit focus shifts?

Don't know as I don't have any Nikkor LTM lenses to try

>
> 4.    Has anyone had to have lenses recollimated to focus properly (at
> infinity) on an M8?

Not so far and my new 50 Lux Asph focuses perfectly right out of the  
box.
Cheers
Howard (in Hong Kong)

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