Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/02

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Subject: [Leica] Focusing problem!
From: feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio)
Date: Thu Sep 2 10:48:17 2004
References: <41375B43.6090003@holken.net>

Sounds like she may need a cleaning. 

Look here:

www.lhsa.org/repair.html


Golden Touch, DAG, Kinderman, Leica NJ are all well know and respected
on this list.

Feli


On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:41, Arvid Rosen wrote:
> Hi!
> I have used my father's M4 for a while now. The greatest camera I ever 
> used!
> However, I do get a lot of shots which are back focus. Especially 
> evident when using the tele-elmarit at short ranges. At first I though 
> that this was just my own fault, not paying enough attention when 
> focusing. Well, I now pay a lot of attention when focusing, and still I 
> far too many back focused shots - never too short focus.
> I got tired and set up a home made test target and to my surprise, it 
> seems like the camera focuses about 1-1.5 inches too far away. This is 
> true for all lenses I tried. 35, 50, 90 and 135mm. The strange thing is 
> that the range finder seems to work at infinity, where the two images 
> line up perfectly.
> The small arm that connects the range finder with the lens in the camera 
>   seems to get stuck some times. But only for very short periods of 
> time, and it snaps back when I rotate the focus ring on the lens.
> 
> Do anyone know what could be wrong? I bet you all know how annoying it 
> is to see that great portrait coming back, with perfect focus on the 
> person's ear. Crap!
> 
> Thanks
> Arvid
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