Help with my 15mm... do not fit right on the camera

[RIVI1969]

Hello,

I have a brand new CV 15mm that just arrived from Cameraquest. The 28-90 mount fits fine, but when I screw the lens on the mount it stops off the center, so I don't know if this matter affects the pictures. I just use it a few times so I don't know if the blurry pictures I get are from my mistake or from the lens. I took a picture from the camera with the lens so you can see it.

Any help will be very appreciate!

Kind regards
Ricardo

 

[ZeissFan]

This is normal for LTM lens mounted on M cameras. The focus and aperture marks are not straight up.

 

[ben lloyd]

On my CV21 if you remove the rear flange you will see that there are a number of preset holes close together for each screw, that way you can replace the flange at slightly different angles and fine tune where the marks line up once its on camera.
I assume the same is probably true of the 15

 

[Dougg]

Ricardo, if you can adjust that lens hood to line up square with the camera body that would be a good thing... But Mike is right; this lens "misalignment" on the body causes no focus error and is fairly normal.

 

[Terao]

See this thread for instructions on how to adjust:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29364

At your own risk, yadda yadda...

Bear in mind of course that if you're also going to use the lens on a screwmount camera it will be offset once you've done this procedure...