Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Focus setting when mounting lens
From: chefurka@sympatico.ca (Paul Chefurka)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 02:40:59 GMT
 
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:13:35 -0500, Eric Welch
<ewelch@ponyexpress.net> wrote:

>At 02:46 AM 9/25/99 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>>Is there a preferred focus setting to be set when mounting a lens on the M6?
>
>Cartier Bresson had a red dot on his focusing ring for his "ideal" 
>distance. Sixteen feet or something like that? Can't remember. (Also aperture).

Uh, Eric, I took it to mean "*while* mounting a lens on the M6".  In
that case, aside from the DR Summicron, there's no reason to be
concerned about the focus setting during the mounting operation.

Paul Chefurka