Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder Misalignment
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:13:59 -0400
References: <200110242032.f9OKWqX08029@sushi.toad.net>

At 05:31 PM 10/24/01 -0400, George Weir wrote:
>Horizontal alignment is good at any distance however it will not align
>vertically at any distance with any lens.
>FWIW: at infinity I see the same non-vertical alignment.

Cool!  Why worry about it, then?  It doesn't affect accuracy.  I believe
Ted Grant has had this condition in one of his cameras for years (REAL
donkey's years in Ted's case:  this is the man who had to license Daguerre
to use his patented chemical formulae, way back in 1839, when Ted was
merely middle-aged.)

Marc

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