Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:28 PM 24-03-98 -0800, Jim Laurel wrote: >A friend of mine and I were discussing this the other day and I've heard >others ask the question a few times, so I thought maybe some of you old >rangefinder hounds could shed some light... > >When I set almost any of my M lenses at infinity, the rangefinder shows >objects at infinity to be just ever so slightly out of alignment. I mean >really slightly. This happens with both of my M6s (one standard, one HM), >as well as my Mamiya 7 and an old Canon G-III rangefinder I've had for ages. >My friend's M6 does the same thing. Is this just normal for rangefinder >cameras? And if so, what do you trust for an infinity shot -- the lens set >at infinity, or backing off the focus just a bit to line up the ghost images >in the rangefinder patch? I've noticed this also, but have gradually reached the point where I can live with it. ;-) My older M6 seems to focus exactly where the rangefinder indicates, in spite of an apparent mis-alignment at infinity. My newer M6HM seems to exhibit exactly the same 'problem', if it really is one. It also seems to be a function of which lens happens to be on the camera, so it may be more a problem with a particular lens than the camera itself. Dan C.