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Subject: [Leica] Fwd: more M8 Noctilux questions
From: faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)
Date: Sun Apr 15 15:11:53 2007
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sorry for the leap there - thought it was a known topic.

Using a 2mm hex wrench, you >delicately< adjust the cam roller thing
to adjust RF horizontal. I slowly tweaked it until infinity focus was
correct.

Warning! -- taking a $1 wrench to you $5000 M8 is not to be taken lightly.

but.. more info here: http://tinyurl.com/ywga5c

Eric

On 4/15/07, leo wesson <leowesson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> What did you adjust?
>
> leo
>
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Eric Korenman wrote:
>
> > UPDATE: With a deep breath and as slush fell from the sky (NE weather
> > right now), I took a 2mm hex wrench to my M8.
> >
> > After about 20 minutes of fiddling and 50 or shots of distant street
> > signs and close ups of newspaper (!), my Noct appears to focus near
> > perfectly. My 35mm and 50mm crons seem to focus just fine as well.
> >
> > It took the Noct to show me that the M8 was so slightly out of
> > adjustment.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com>
> > Date: Apr 15, 2007 9:22 AM
> > Subject: Fwd: more M8 Noctilux questions
> > To: LUG <lug@leica-users.org>
> >
> >
> > one more try:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com>
> > Date: Apr 15, 2007 9:21 AM
> > Subject: more M8 Noctilux questions
> > To: LUG <lug@leica-users.org>
> >
> >
> > I know the M8 and Noctilux don't always get along focus-wise.
> > There have been many posts and it seems the common theme is a back
> > focus problem.
> >
> > Here is my tale.
> >
> > 1) My M8 and lenses (50 & 35) focus perfectly.
> > 2) Friend loans me his M6, assorted lenses - 35, 50 and a Noctilux.
> > 3) On my M8, the Noct (shot wide open of course) back focuses by 4-5
> > inches in the near and mid fields. At infinity, the M8 + Noct will
> > focus slightly past infinity.
> >
> > 4) Now here is where I get confused:
> > The Noct focuses just fine on his M6. Infinity is dead on.
> > His other lenses focus perfectly on my M8 AND his M6.
> > My lenses seem to focus just fine on his M6 (IE, none focus past
> > infinity)
> >
> > Why does the Noct focus past infinity on my M8 and not the M6 if all
> > the other lenses work just fine on BOTH cameras?
> >
> > a rainy day project in NE,
> > Eric
> >
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>
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