Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan, get somebody to adjust your RF that knows what they're doing. It doesn't make a damn to me or anybody else but Jim how in the hell they do it... As for the "exact tool the designer intended", I answer: Is this the same idiot bastard that designed the slow speed geartrain that DOESN't disengage the pallet at the end of travel? The same idiot that designed the post M4 sync block? The same idiot that designed the curtain brakes that have never come CLOSE to the performance of an 45 year old Nikon? How 'bout that rewind stack on the M2/3...or its KLUGE replacement on the M4/6?.... Now, if we could get a Nikon SP body/shutter with M-mount and RF, letting Cosina build the finder optics....well, I can hope, can't I?.... The M bodies are a necessary evil of using Leica glass...and yes, they're >>>PRETTY<<< good, so we live with them.... If the reissue Nikon S2 ...COSTS...Nikon over $5000 to build, and I have no way to dispute their claim, do you REALLY believe that the M6 at $1800 street price is built as well?...what part of Leica M design have the "designers" IMPROVED in 45 years??? The RF "tool" is a kludge....as was the rewind on the M4.... as is the sync block on the hot shoe models...as is the .58 model... you mean in 50 years they couldn't shoehorn more eye relief into the RF?....so the shrink the damn thing and with it the accuracy... all the while building the 75 1.4 and the 90 f2.....which even according to Erwin are at the ragged edge of a .72's ability to focus...IF and only IF the damn thing holds infinity... But we idiots still buy the stuff....and buy SEPARATE MODELS to use the already limited selection of lenses... This is the expertise of the same folks that brought you the now-infamous "tool".....that the "designers" intended you to use....and you damn well better, cuz if you shoot their premier glass wide open, you might not get the eyes in focus if your RF is off... Sorry Dan, I got to raging again.... get the RF close and go out and make pictures...if you want to shoot close ups of sharp eyelashes buy a Nikon and an 85... Walt On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dan Cardish wrote: > Well.....now I am all confused, all over again. If you need the same tool > to make the adjustment, top cover on or off, then why take off the cover? > > Dan C. > > At 09:52 AM 04-11-00 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: > >At 12:05 PM 11/4/00 -0500, Dan Cardish wrote: > >>Walt, now that we have definitively and forever determined that it is not > >>necessary to remove the top plate ever, ever, ever, is removing the top > >>plate and adjusting the vertical alignment a job that can be done by the > >>non-technically minded among us, as an alternative to getting this special > >>tool that Jim has? > >> > >>Dan C. > > > >Dan, > > > >The "peg hole and eccentric slot" that is used for adjusting the vertical > >alignment doesn't go away by removing the top plate. It still requires the > >special tool, unless someone wants to "kludge" something up to work. Not me > >though as it is a very specialized adjustment mechanism and is best served > >by using the exact tool that the designers intended. > > > >Jim > > > > >