Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They have responded, in much more conciliatory tone. No matter now, I sold the finder to Phil Forrest. He says if he can't fix it, he can still use it for his large format lens so it's a win-win. The CV25mm finder should come in within a day or so. I do love the Zeiss finders, so we will see how the CV finder works out. Such is life. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote: > 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> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>