Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] More M8 questions
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Sun Apr 1 09:57:05 2007

Thanks

I agree, boring.  Calibrating lens/camera focus doesn't sit very high on my
list of "enjoyable activities".

And 5" is outside of the "focus on the eyes, and the ears are pleasantly out
of focus" objective for portraits.

...Vick 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank
Dernie
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:52 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] More M8 questions

I have been going through the photographs take in the last week on my newish
M8. The ones from the 35 f1.4 aspherical are lovely, this was always my
favourite lens by far, reason alone to get the M8 - I am delighted. My 50s
both f1.4 an f1 may need to go away for recalibration though, after loads of
OOF pix I took some check pictures which show them both focusing about 5"
behind the point of rangefinder coincidence.
I will check all my lenses first to make sure it is not the camera and I am
getting away with it on WA lenses because of the greater DoF. Boring.
Frank

On 1 Apr, 2007, at 17:41, Vick Ko wrote:

> Is this sort of like high blood pressure?
>
> Nothing outwardly wrong until "the checkup", and then the doctor tells 
> you that the additional stress of buying an M8, and the worry that 
> it'll die within a month, will kill you, so you never buy an M8 but 
> continue to wish you did?
>
> .... ie. it's a problem, only if you are aware that it's a problem?
> Otherwise, keep shooting?  If the photos look fantastic, it isn't a 
> problem?
>
> ....Vick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dave Mason
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:36 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] More M8 questions
>
> To stray slightly off-topic - this reminds me about last year when I 
> sent my
> M7 to Sherry Krauter to repair a busted rewind knob. While it was 
> there she determined that the shutter speeds were off by quite a bit. 
> I had no clue.
>
> KISS - Keep I Simply Stupid!
>
>
> Dave
>
>
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