Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi all! I think that Practical Photography (June 2000) just made a simple focusing error. When photographing a pattern with a rangefinder it is too easy to align a wrong set of lines and I think that is what happened. Can be done with Leica as well as I can testify. It is easily avoided by checking the distance scale - which you normally never do - but if you are doing a test you should do. The error is too gross to be caused by slight inaccuracy in back focus so no reason to try to invent improbable explanations for it. BTW the PP stated that the Hexar is fully compatible with Leica lenses and that the rangefinder works perfectly. All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Brougham <brougham3@yahoo.com> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 25. kesäkuuta 2000 13:39 Aihe: [Leica] Re: Hexar RF Focusing Problems? >Gaifana@aol.com wrote: > >> A lot of the prerelease cameras apparently had the back focus >distance >> reset in both the bodies and the lenses to dispel the rumors (true) >> that the camera takes Leica M lenses. This problem was reported in a >> lot of the European magazines last year. > >Why would they want to dispel that rumor? I'd think it would be a >good selling point for the Hexar. I won't be considering one if it >doesn't work well with M lenses. If it does, then at some point, I >can get an AE "Leica" for my wife. :) >