Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Focusing at infinity
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:05:11 -0500

Whenever I have done this with my M6s, the scale readings were always
exactly correct (or as exact as the eye can measure).  It always impressed me.

Dan C.

At 02:37 PM 16-03-00 -0800, Dale R. Reed wrote:
>How many of you LUGers have focused(with the rangefinder) your M6s on a
>target 10 feet from away then read the resulting lens scale reading?
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>And those of you that did do this test, how many found the rangefinder
>inaccurate that you had it corrected by a camera technician?
>
>I just did the test on my two M6s with similar results on both of them.  The
>wider(21mm and 35mm) lens measured OK at 10 feet but the 50mm lens measured
>11 feet, the 90mm lens measured 12 feet and the 135mm lens measured 13 feet.
>Dale
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