Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan: Some of the LUG discussions of quality has caused you to blame a brand new lens rather than a thirty year old camera. All this quality discussion on the LUG has people making assumtions without any basis of fact. Yours was a perfect example. Where was the M3 not focusing properly, at close or far distances? The 135 would have very shallow defth of field at its closer limit and your rangfinded would have to be dead on to focus it properly. Perhaps the other lenses you used on the M3 have better depth of field. The cam system on the leica lenses is a very simple arrangement and it would be wrong to blame the lens for not focusing on the M3. If it focuses on the M6, the problem must be in the M3. Both the M6 and M6 have rangefindeds that expect the same input from the cams on the lens when focusing. These comments were not aimed at you personally, but at the general attitude of the LUG lately when it comes to camera problems. Regards, Robert At 06:01 PM 12/15/98 +0100, you wrote: >Alan, > >Yes I did, this afternoon, and they are perfect!!! Sharp, beautiful colour >rendition on Fuji Provia, everything as advertised. > >This is now driving me crazy; the M3 works fine with other lenses, the 135mm >works fine on the M6, so the problem must be some sort of incompatibility between >the M3 and the 135; the title of this thread seems very fitting. Tomorrow I will >take the camera and lens to Photo Alpha (that's where I bought the 135) and see >what they think. > >Nathan > >Alan Ball wrote: > >> Nathan, >> >> Did you get your M6 + 135mm test slides back ? And ? >> >> Alan > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Overijse, Belgium >Photo page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator > > > > > >