Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/14

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Subject: RE: [Leica] focus at infinity
From: Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:51:32 -0700

Funny...I see the same behavior with all these cameras:

(2) Canon A1
Canon FTb
Mamiya 7
Contax S
(2) Leica M6

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alfred Breull [SMTP:puma@hannover.sgh-net.de]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 14, 1998 10:50 AM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	Re: [Leica] focus at infinity
> 
> At 08:42 14.04.1998 -0700, Jim Laurel wrote:
> >lens' infinity stop?  You'll notice that when you set any M lens at the
> >infinity stop, the coincident images in the rangefinder patch are just
> ever
> >so slightly off.  
> 
> 
> I've never had it with any screw mount, M, SL, or R body or any screw
> mount,
> M, SL or R lens between 21 and 90 mm. There, infintiny is & was infinity.
> 
> It's different with shutter speeds, they might differ max 10 percent.
> 
> Alf
> 
> 
> 
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