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

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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss finder Saga, The Smoking Gun...
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:37:48 -0700
References: <CAF8hL-E6=0MyUM73JjhJws-RfJZ89Lp-njybbODe4p_62cWgHA@mail.gmail.com> <CAE3QcF6wVct--3qrX0kPhbkrAYi=JVvWr4x3Nr9bQOmbceLnAQ@mail.gmail.com>

I just did. Not sure if they want to engage me any more :-) but lets see if
they respond.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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