Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re: LTM lens seating
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:40:36 -0400

I have a variety of LTM lenses including the new 35 Summicron. Some seat at
12 and some do not. I can see no effect on the focus nor can I envision how
it would matter.

Ken Wilcox

At 4:38 -0700 4/22/0, a fine scholar, Damian Dlugolecki wrote:

>I recently purchased the 50 summicron and 35 summicron asph. Leica
>lenses in
>thread mount.  I am delighted with the image quality.  However they seat
>at about 12:30 on both of my iiif's.  Other LTM lenses I own seat
>normally at 12:00.  I wonder if there is anyone here who can tell me
>whether this affects the way the cam tracks vis-a-vis rangefinder
>accuracy.
>Wishing you all a wonderful Easter
>DD
>--
>http://www.teleport.com/~damian/strings.htm


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