Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] focus at infinity
From: thibault collin <tc-lnc@u-picardie.fr>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:35:59 +0200

Actually, I saw the same problem with a Nikon F2 and a 2X teleconverter!
Thib.

>Funny...I see the same behavior with all these cameras:
>
>(2) Canon A1
>Canon FTb
>Mamiya 7
>Contax S
>(2) Leica M6
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Alfred Breull [SMTP:puma@hannover.sgh-net.de]
>> Sent:	Tuesday, April 14, 1998 10:50 AM
>> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>> Subject:	Re: [Leica] focus at infinity
>> 
>> At 08:42 14.04.1998 -0700, Jim Laurel wrote:
>> >lens' infinity stop?  You'll notice that when you set any M lens at the
>> >infinity stop, the coincident images in the rangefinder patch are just
>> ever
>> >so slightly off.  
>> 
>> 
>> I've never had it with any screw mount, M, SL, or R body or any screw
>> mount,
>> M, SL or R lens between 21 and 90 mm. There, infintiny is & was infinity.
>> 
>> It's different with shutter speeds, they might differ max 10 percent.
>> 
>> Alf
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> Alfred Breull
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