bad orientation of bright lines in rangefinder

[menos]

I noticed yesterday night during some street shooting, that my rangefinder shows a strange misalignment.

The bright lines in the viewfinder are off (rotated), so my composition results in a photograph rotated by aproximately 4º to the right.

Normally, bright lines are known, to not give an accurate framing, but this rotation bugs me really.
I shot some details on the wall of a very narrow back alley. I had only my 50mm with me and could barely fit my subject into the frame with no margin for later correction in rotating the image in pp.

What is wrong? Which settings have to be made to the camera?
When my camera leather arrives from Morgan, i plan, to open up the camera anyway - would be nice, to collect some info on that issue.

When I am at it, I could do with some added 90mm frame indicators too 😛 I'll have a closer look at Mr. Cuttler's site for these infos.

 

[Ezzie]

Yes Dirk, this has been discussed. They do shift sometimes. Mine are also off, but not by as much as 4 degrees, so I live with it, rotating and cropping in PS if necessary.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79409

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80202

 

[menos]

Thanks for the right direction Erik.
I will continue, to post in the last forum of the two, which deals with the misalignment only.

 

[phototektour]

Welcome to join the club 🙂 I think most of R-D1 have this rotation-prob. And as I noticed it is not only sometimes, it stays with all lenses. In fact that the finder patch is also rotated in relation to the framelines, I´m using the finder patch to level the shot. It works great. Rich Cuttler writes that tilted framelines are a manufacturing fault that should be fixed under guarantee (see section "common faults"). But where to send it in? Maybe the chips are not fixed proper, don´t know. So keep in your mind, it´s not a fault, it´s a feature 🙂

 

[menos]

Yet another quirk, but I really urge, to repair this. It really bugs me, as my favorite is the 50 Lux at the moment, while it is quite long on the R-D1.