Re: [Leica] fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy...

[John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com>]

1) It should take a half an hour of labour and a red shield if the repair
place you have chosen has the right tools and parts. It strikes me that your
camera is not brand new nor treated with kid gloves; so perhaps it may need
something more like a CLA.

2) Hard to say as you seem to imply that the focus was fine before you sent
the lens in. It is easy to check though. Focus on something FAR away (two
miles at least). Does the rangefinder line up correctly with the lens set at
infinity? Take a photo, is the photo sharp? If the photo is sharp the back
focus is fine.

3) When the blood vessels burst in your retinas and your vision goes red...

Good luck,

John Collier

> From: Kyle Cassidy <cassidy@netaxs.com>
> 
> after whacking my voigtlander 35 against a pipe in a bucharest sewer the
> front element was wobbly, although it still took perfectly sharp pictures.
> i sent it out for service (seems i'd sheered some screw or other off) and
> it came back nice and fixed looking, but the focus was off. a roll of
> photos of a lens test chart proved this. so i sent it back along with the
> m6 which needed to have the vertical RF adjusted anyway (it got knocked
> out of whack when the camera fell off a chair about 2 years ago). they're
> going to get back to me with an estimate.
> 
> i have a multifouldenous question which i will place, like a
> plate of tasty spaghetti before your collective wisdom:
> 
> 1) how much should i expect to pay for a vertical RF adjustment on the
> M6?
> 
> 2) how likely is it that the focus is screwed up in the M6 body itself
> rather than in the lens?
> 
> 3) at what $$$ point should i say "you're ripping me off you jerk, i'll
> gut you like a pig" for adjusting the focus on the back of the lens?
>