Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M3 and new 50 focusing
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:49:05 -0400
 
At 09:03 PM 8/24/1999 -0500, Henry Ambrose wrote:
>Can the M3 be modified to focus closer so that the close focusing ability 
>of the new lenses can be utilized?
>

Well, several of us have had a rather heated discussion on this point
off-LUG.  The factory answer is that all M3's were intended to focus only
to 1m but that they could be adjusted to a lesser distance.  I understand
that this entails some marginal loss in accuracy.

Marc

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