Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Bernardo, Yes there are procedures for aligning the rangefinder yourself. If your M8 just got back from Solms most likely the rangefinder was aligned to be perfect. And the Noctilux is well known to back focus on the M8. As George said you can adjust the cam position of the rangefinder (located just inside the top of the camera mount) with a 2mm allen wrench. But this is a very delicate adjustment and will affect the focus of all of your lenses, mostly any lens of 50mm and longer. Since this cam is the infinity adjustment if not done just right some of your lenses may not focus to infinity when your Noctilux focuses perfectly. Since you are going on holiday in a few days I would leave your M8 alone and bracket your Noctilux shots when you use it. Focus a few mm in front of your desired focus point. I really suggest you not touch your M8 rangefinder. I aligned my rangefinder but it took a few hours to get it just right for the Noctilux but it did mess up the focus on my 90mm AA at the longer distances. Try your other lenses now to see how the M8 focuses. I ended up getting my Noctilux adjusted and my M8 rangefinder realigned back to factory specs. Now everything is perfect. Best Regards, Len On Dec 23, 2008, at 9:30 AM, bernardo feio wrote: > hello I just receive my M8 from Solms and the rangefinder is now a > bit out of alignment for the noctilux. Since I?m leaving on > holidays in the next few days I must adjust myself the > rangefinderis there any article or post that explain how to do it? > thanks b regards from Portugalbernardofeio > > > Veja quais s?o os assuntos do momento no Yahoo! +Buscados > http://br.maisbuscados.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information