Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would like to follow Ted's advice and just take this Noctilux everywhere, but I am having an issue with focus, and I don't know whether it is me, the lens, the M8, or all three. The lens seems to focus slightly beyond where I think the focus should be. I am using the 1.25x eyepiece magnifier to help, but it still is there. If I try shooting at a ruler, at the closest focus around 3.5 feet, the focus seems to be maybe 0.5 to 1.0 inches beyond the focus I set. (Of course, when hand holding I am probably swaying more than that.) With the shallow DOF at f/1, this is enough to put an eye out of focus. I have tried using the C mode when shooting at f/1, and fire off a series of exposures while I ever so slightly rotate the focus further away. This actually works, and almost guarantees that one of the exposures has the focus I want. It is not really how I want to shoot, however. Another embodiment of the C mode method would be to first have a drink of scotch, focus, and while shooting a run of exposures sway forward slightly into the scene. So, what are your thoughts? Should I: 1. Send the lens & M8 to Leica for a checkup, and forget about the camera for two months? 2. Send the lens & M8 to someone other than Leica? 3. Just send the M8 in for a checkup? 4. Just use the C mode method? If so, which brand of scotch do you think would work best? 5. Send myself for a checkop? Cheers, Bob Rose Robert Rose robert.rose@mac.com Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. US (1928)