Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] retro focus…
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:52:24 -0700
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On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> I think the proper terms is back focus.
> 
> If the focus point changes as you change the aperture, then it's focus
> shift and you are stuck. You can then decide to calibrate to an aperture
> that makes the most sense to you, usually at wide open and hope the DoF
> will cover for any errors in narrower aperture.
> 
> Certainly I would do that. It's hard enough to focus at F1. Any type of
> back or front focus and you are upping the odd of mis-focused shots.
> 
> I believe this is one of the reasons why the Nocti /0.95 was created.
> 
> You should test out whether it's focus shift. Just put the camera on a
> tripod and photograph a yard stick at an angle. Take multiple photos
> without changing the focus but only the aperture.


thanks Richard,

Steve


> 
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at 
> gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> my Noctilux at f1 shows a small degree of retro/posterior focus on my M9
>> body.
>> 
>> Can I fix this? How? Or should it the M9 body plus/minus the lens be sent
>> to Leica for ideal calibration?
>> 
>> 
>> to New Jersey or Solms?
>> 
>> 
>> many thanks,
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
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