Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/17

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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss finder Saga, The Smoking Gun...
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:09:54 +1000
References: <CAF8hL-E6=0MyUM73JjhJws-RfJZ89Lp-njybbODe4p_62cWgHA@mail.gmail.com>

Richard did you show this photo to the Zeiss people you spoke with?
A picture is worth a thousand mis-communications/most likelies!

Cheers,
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman



On 18 April 2012 13:20, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> The Smoking Gun, see the photo of the framelines in the viewfinder. We
> leveled everything as best we can using bubble levels. The internal M9
> framelines are ?dead-on,? definitely good enough for framing purpose. As
> you can see, the framelines inside the Zeiss finder, as marked by the red
> lines, are tilted. Notice that the finder is just sitting on top of the
> camera, not in the hotshoe, so it has nothing to do with ?rotational? axis
> with respect to the center of the lens etc.
>
> Again, my beef is not so much that the framelines are tilted ? I bought the
> finder used and if it could have been dropped or whatever. My issue is the
> arrogance from the customer support that this cannot be a problem.
>
> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120417-_4178357-Edit.jpg
>
> --
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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