Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] My M8 is going back for service....
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:04:58 +0200
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What really puzzles me about all this is why you put up with such an 
obviously dysfunctional camera for 18 months--you must be the world's most 
patient man.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA







On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Frank Filippone wrote:

> Nothing is in focus... ruler or not... fence or not.....  This is an result
> of focus plane in front of or behind the sensor....
> 
> In response to your possible scenarios.....
> 1) there is only a point that the sharpness appears, but nowhere else...
> 2) the sharp film plane is in front of or behind the place you THINK it
> should be....
> 3) sensor glass is messing up the image.. or FW is messing up the image....
> Most likely on this camera....
> 
> Personally my  money is on the sensor that is not perpendicular to the lens
> axis... this would make only a single POINT in focus, which I might
> miss.....
> Or
> A problem with the FW or some chip that is acting up making the FW not work
> correctly.
> 
> Maybe I will find out the answer, maybe I will not.
> 
> However, if they need to replace my sensor board, maybe I will receive one
> of those really rare FF sensor upgrades that we were  promised some years
> ago....
> Maybe not.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at earthlink.net
> 
> - the sensor is not parallel to the virtual film plane
> - the sensor is not on the virtual film plane
> - the sensor glass is messing up the light somehow
> 
> 
> 
> 
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