Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] My M8 is going back for service....
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:18:29 -0700

I finally got disgusted... My M8 never did produce what I thought of as
really sharply focused images.  Focus at 15 feet, use a tripod, at 1/25
second, of a fence, at F11 , using the WATE set at 16mm SHOULD produce some
area of the image that is really tack sharp.  Not mine.... NOTHING was in
focus.  Sharp focus just did not exist.  A friends' M9 did produce sharp
images using the same lenses... so it is the camera, not the lenses.

No, it is NOT a back focus issue ( which produces a really  a sharp image
area, just not where you think it should be); nor does it need a RF
readjustment.. 

So back it went today.... 

Never had this problem with a film camera.. and BTW, the lenses I tried all
produce really sharp images on film.. 



Frank Filippone
Red735i at earthlink.net






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