Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/18

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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss finder Saga, The Smoking Gun...
From: wrs111445 at yahoo.com (W. R. Smith)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:37:59 -0700 (PDT)

You'd think that considering the exorbitant prices they get for their 
finders, they'd give better customer service. 

--- On Tue, 4/17/12, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Zeiss finder Saga, The Smoking Gun...
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 11:09 PM

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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