Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/10

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Subject: Re: New M6 Rangefinder Problem
From: n5xrd@juno.com (Richard W. Hemingway)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 22:03:42 CDT
 
Richard,

>I just mounted my new 35mm Summilux Aspheric lens on my new M6 and 
>realized
>that the rangefinder on the M6 doesn't quite line up right.  The 
>doubled
>image line up horizontally but are off a bit vertically.  When you try 
>to
>focus on a sign with letters, the letters are out of registration
>vertically.  What a bummer.  I didn't notice this at first until I 
>compared
>the rangefinder images with my earlier M6 body that lined up the two 
>images
>vertically and horizontally.  

I have had this problem with some of the older M bodies but not with the
M6s.  It was a pain but worked OK.  I think that Ted gave you good
advice.

Dick