Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A friend of mine and I were discussing this the other day and I've heard others ask the question a few times, so I thought maybe some of you old rangefinder hounds could shed some light... When I set almost any of my M lenses at infinity, the rangefinder shows objects at infinity to be just ever so slightly out of alignment. I mean really slightly. This happens with both of my M6s (one standard, one HM), as well as my Mamiya 7 and an old Canon G-III rangefinder I've had for ages. My friend's M6 does the same thing. Is this just normal for rangefinder cameras? And if so, what do you trust for an infinity shot -- the lens set at infinity, or backing off the focus just a bit to line up the ghost images in the rangefinder patch? - --Jim Laurel