Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don't forget Sherry Krauter, who does most excellent work - and from whom I do NOT get kickbacks. ;-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Feli di Giorgio Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:55 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Focusing problem! 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 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Feli di Giorgio Visual Effects Supervisor "Hostage" creocollective - feli@creocollective.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information