Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Collier wrote: > Please test the lens carefully with a tripod and a inanimate object. You > may even place the camera on the inanimate object and photograph the > tripod if you wish. It is not uncommon for the camera or lens to need an > adjustment. Usually it is the camera but, to be fair, I have seen both. > If the body or lens is slightly off, it can drive you bananas trying to > get sharp pictures wide open and close. A 90/2AA has less dof wide open > than a Noctilux so you have to be careful. My wife's garden gnome IS fairly inanimate, at least during the day ;-) I suppose I am just stretching the R2 too much in this situation. I know for sure it is not the lens, since it performs perfectly on my M bodies; likewise, I do not think the R2 is faulty, as it works fine with my other lenses (all shorter). So I have to conclude that it is simply a matter of asking the R2 to do something it simply cannot do well. > > That said, I have one as well and have no troubles focusing at 1m/f2 on > my 0.72 TTL. Not to say I do not have other problems: intravenous drug > use, rampant alcoholism, appalling taste in interior design; but, I can > focus an 90/2 no problems. It kind of takes the pressure off the other > stuff :-) Glad to see a man with a sense of priorities ;-) Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html