Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/13/99 10:16:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dcardish@microtec.net writes: << I noticed this too with my 1st version aspheric. And I too worried about something being wrong with the camera or lens. But I also noticed that at the advertised minimum distance of .7 m the rangefinder still worked so I surmised that things were OK. The same thing happens with both my M6 bodies. Dan C. At 09:49 AM 13-06-99 -0400, Ed wrote: >I recently traded in my 35mm f/2 Summicron for the ASPH version. I noticed >that with both lenses on the M6, you can turn the focus lever beyond the >0.7 m setting which is supposed to be the minimum focus range for these >lenses. [snip] >> You could probably place a focusing screen from an SLR across the film plane of the M6, set the lens at its minimum, move in on a subject until it's sharp and then physically measure the actual distance. The 21 Super Angulon is scale-marked all the way to 0.4m although the M rangefinder stops working at 0.7. With the 35's narrower angle of view, at less than the 0.7m setting I would suspect that viewfinder parallax might become an issue, too. DT