Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/29

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Subject: [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:22:40 +0530
References: <380-2201211429144815544@M2W121.mail2web.com>

It took me two hours to calibrate 11 lenses on two bodies. It is not
particularly time consuming or difficult.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:18 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net <
wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
> >>>
> As an aside in this discussion, for autofocus lenses and DSLR bodies - get
> something like LensAlign and adjust the focus using the "AF Fine Tune"
> function in the menu. The D700 has the capacity to store values for 12
> lenses, and the D800 for 20 lenses. Once you test and store the values for
> a lens, and switch on the "AF Fine Tune" function, the values will
> automatically be used when you mount the lens. There is considerable
> variance, so this is really worth doing.
> <<<
>
> One must wonder why AF SLR cameras aren't made with less variance and why
> the onus of focus accuracy is dumped on the user.  OTOH, more profits for
> LensAlign.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
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