Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10

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Subject: Re: Caveat Konica Hexar RF (or Re: [Leica] Focusing Hexar RF with Leica lenses) LONG
From: ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:32:41 +0800
References: <003f01c04b73$49aed250$e32f10ac@phil>
 
Mine worked perfectly out of the box with all my lenses and even LTM lenses on
adapters.  I have other issues with it but focusing is not one of them.


>
>
> I also bought a Hexar RF body to use with my Leica lenses.  I was very
> surprised to discover that every Leica lens I owned caused the Hexar RF
> rangefinder to converge at infinity before the lens reached infinity.  I
> tried 3 different 50mm Summicrons (rigid, collapsible, DR), 3 different 90mm
> (Elmar-C, Tele-Elmarit, LTM Elmar w/M-adapt), 28mm, and two different 135mm
> lenses (Elmar f4.0 and Elmarit-m f2.8).  All had the infinity convergence
> issue.  All these lenses focus fine with my M2.
Replies: Reply from Stephen Gandy <Stephen@CameraQuest.com> (Re: Caveat Konica Hexar RF (or Re: [Leica] Focusing Hexar RF with Leica lenses) LONG)
 In reply to: Message from "Phil Eskildsen" <philesk@attglobal.net> (Caveat Konica Hexar RF (or Re: [Leica] Focusing Hexar RF with Leica lenses) LONG)