Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are probably right, but isn't it strange that all lenses exhibit this problem, but it still seems ok at infinity. By the way, do I dare to put some oil on the range finder coupling arm myself? Or would that be just stupid. /Arvid Feli di Giorgio wrote: > 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