jlamarca
jlamarca
I have a Zeiss Ikon. I've recently started shooting from the chest, guessing my focus with the help of the lens markings. That led me to break out the measuring tape, and I noticed something: the lens distance markings and the rangefinder do not match.
For example, I set the camera on a tripod so that the front of the body is exactly one meter away from a stripe on the wall. If I use the RF to focus on that stripe, the lens barrel tells me that I am focused at 1.1m. And if I set the lens scale to exactly 1.0m, which I know is the distance from my camera body to that stripe, the RF patch shows the stripe as out of focus. I get the same discrepancy with all three of my lenses: biogon 25, biogon 35, and CV40/1.4.
Of course, I did test shots and when I get them developed next weekend I'll see the results, but wondered if anyone else can weigh in on this. I've been using this ZI body for 6 months now and have never noticed a problem in my photos, but I haven't been doing much close distance focusing either.
Does anyone else have this issue? Is this what is referred to as a misaligned rangefinder, or is it something else? And if so, how can I get it fixed?
For example, I set the camera on a tripod so that the front of the body is exactly one meter away from a stripe on the wall. If I use the RF to focus on that stripe, the lens barrel tells me that I am focused at 1.1m. And if I set the lens scale to exactly 1.0m, which I know is the distance from my camera body to that stripe, the RF patch shows the stripe as out of focus. I get the same discrepancy with all three of my lenses: biogon 25, biogon 35, and CV40/1.4.
Of course, I did test shots and when I get them developed next weekend I'll see the results, but wondered if anyone else can weigh in on this. I've been using this ZI body for 6 months now and have never noticed a problem in my photos, but I haven't been doing much close distance focusing either.
Does anyone else have this issue? Is this what is referred to as a misaligned rangefinder, or is it something else? And if so, how can I get it fixed?