[Leica] R8 flash puzzle

[Dave Yoder <leica@home.com>]

sandyquandt@centuryinter.net wrote:

> Bottom line...of my three M6's (recent production) I sent *one* back to Leica
> NJ for an under-warranty vertical alignment adjustment, not because it was
> causing a problem with the finished product, but simply because the lack of
> alignment was driving me crazy. (I should have checked this before I bought the
> camera, but since it was my first Leica, I didn't know any better...Thanks to
> the LUG, I now know how to check these aspects before I buy :-) I was without
> the camera for seven days and it has worked perfectly ever since - even
> surviving trips on express prop planes on which the vibration is enough to
> loosen dental fillings!
>
> Sandy
>
> >
> > People who are going to be checking the calibration of
> > the rangefinder with a yardstick every other day are
> > probably not going to be happy with an M6 or any other
> > mechanical rangefinder.  The fact of the matter is
> > that a rangefinder can drift out of alignment.
> > According to many reports I've read on the LUG, shocks
> > commonly cause vertical misalignment (in the
> > rangefinder patch one image is slightly above the
> > other) which while irritating, causes no detrimental
> > effects in terms of accuracy, which is solely a
> > function of horizontal alignment (within reason).