Re: [Leica] Focusing at infinity

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

Your M6 rangefinders probably are correct but the rangefinder cam on the
suspect lens needs adjusting. The lens rangefinder coupling cam is not the
lens focussing cam though they are linked of course.

John Collier

> From: "Dale R. Reed" <dale-reed@worldnet.att.net>
> 
>>> But John do you think that this lens, and by extension all lens, are
> focused
>>> at infinity when
>>> 1) they are hard against the focusing ring stop
>>> or instead
> 
>> Door number 1 for me.
> 
> If so John, that means that the rangefinders on both of my M6s are
> incorrect.
> 
> And when they are "corrected" by a technician then all my other lens will
> focus differently.
> 
> Hence if I look over my approximately 1000(especially the ones that I
> intended to be focused at infinity) slides taken with these two cameras, at
> least some of them will be out of focus.   Both at infinity and closer.
> 
> But most of the slides are focused correctly.  Accept when I goofed up.  My
> 65 year old eyes are not as good as they used to be even with glasses on.
> 
> But my eyes are good enough to see that this new 135mm lens, when focused at
> infinity, is much different than all my other lens.  On the same two
> cameras.       Dale
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