[Leica] Do I really want a 75 Summilux?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 7:29 AM -0400 10/21/09, Vick Ko wrote:
>Henning, how did you "get this adjusted"?
>
>By having the lenses reworked, I presume?
>
>Since the M8's are the common factor, I presume it wasn't changing 
>the focus arm movement in the camera.
>
>
>...Vick
>
>Henning Wulff wrote:
>>  ... I have both M8's working now with the Noctilux and the 75 
>>Summilux, so it's possible to get this all adjusted.
>>


I got one M8 early on, but that one couldn't focus the Noctilux 
accurately enough, and was slightly off with the Summilux. Later I 
got a second M8 used which had been adjusted recently at Solms by the 
previous owner. Actually he had bought the camera, shot a couple of 
shots with it, sent it to Solms and then sold it. So the camera was 
'better than new' :-). My Noctilux worked perfectly with that camera, 
as did the Summilux. So I knew it was the camera that was off.

I then sent the camera, Noctilux and some other lenses to Solms to 
get coded and adjusted, telling them don't adjust the Noctilux, just 
use it as a basis to adjust the M8. Which they did. So now both 
cameras work exactly the same, and are fine with those two fast 
lenses.
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