Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You'd think that considering the exorbitant prices they get for their finders, they'd give better customer service. --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Leica] Zeiss finder Saga, The Smoking Gun... To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 11:09 PM Richard did you show this photo to the Zeiss people you spoke with? A picture is worth a thousand mis-communications/most likelies! Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 18 April 2012 13:20, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > The Smoking Gun, see the photo of the framelines in the viewfinder. We > leveled everything as best we can using bubble levels. The internal M9 > framelines are ?dead-on,? definitely good enough for framing purpose. As > you can see, the framelines inside the Zeiss finder, as marked by the red > lines, are tilted. Notice that the finder is just sitting on top of the > camera, not in the hotshoe, so it has nothing to do with ?rotational? axis > with respect to the center of the lens etc. > > Again, my beef is not so much that the framelines are tilted ? I bought the > finder used and if it could have been dropped or whatever. My issue is the > arrogance from the customer support that this cannot be a problem. > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120417-_4178357-Edit.jpg > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information