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I spent about 40 minutes figuring this out yesterday, so I thought I'd share. Both vertical and horizontal adjustment screws are accessible without taking anything apart. They are concealed by decorative exterior screws. The vertical is on the top plate by the shutter speed dial; the horizontal is on the front, beside the viewfinder window (see photo).
Remove the two screws and put them somewhere safe. The vertical adjustment screw cover is the kind with two holes; you will need a medical tweezers or something to get it off. I used a small electronic capacitor with the leads trimmed down to one millimeter, because I'm a DIY nerd.
Set up the camera, with lens, on a tripod outdoors somewhere where there's are very distant very clear horizontal and vertical objects, like a phone pole with lines coming off it. Point the camera at this area, then focus to infinity.
Do the vertical adjustment first. If you peer into the hole, you can see the (rather large) slot for the jeweler's screwdriver to go into--the screwdriver will have to be angled forward a little to hit it right. It is VERY SENSITIVE, so the vertical adjustment will be all out of whack as you work--you can see it bouncing around in the VF as you adjust. So you'll have to use trial and error to get it right.
Once it's right, do the same with the horizontal adjustment. This one is easy, and the RF patch image will be perfectly stable.
Replace the screws, you're done.
Remove the two screws and put them somewhere safe. The vertical adjustment screw cover is the kind with two holes; you will need a medical tweezers or something to get it off. I used a small electronic capacitor with the leads trimmed down to one millimeter, because I'm a DIY nerd.
Set up the camera, with lens, on a tripod outdoors somewhere where there's are very distant very clear horizontal and vertical objects, like a phone pole with lines coming off it. Point the camera at this area, then focus to infinity.
Do the vertical adjustment first. If you peer into the hole, you can see the (rather large) slot for the jeweler's screwdriver to go into--the screwdriver will have to be angled forward a little to hit it right. It is VERY SENSITIVE, so the vertical adjustment will be all out of whack as you work--you can see it bouncing around in the VF as you adjust. So you'll have to use trial and error to get it right.
Once it's right, do the same with the horizontal adjustment. This one is easy, and the RF patch image will be perfectly stable.
Replace the screws, you're done.
