Mis-Placed Lens - Has This Ever Happened To You ?

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Kindly notice I am purposedly posting this at the Fixed lens rfs, as my question refers to any of them.

Today checking an Oly RC, I found that while the yellow patch and distance scale are in perfect harmony, I have no according sharpness at the film plane.

Thus for example the real sharpness at infinity, shows when the distance scale is at 5m. Or in other words you don't have real infinity at the end of the turn of the distance wheel.

Therefore I had no choice but to adapt the yellow patch coincidence to the lens film plane sharpness, as depicted by an slr screen attached to film plane. As a result, instead of having a range from
0,85 to infinity, I actually have after the fix a range near 1,25 to infinity.

The camera was never used by me and looks like new. Has this ever happened to you in any Fixed Lens Rangefinder ? I mean, a misplaced yellow patch is quite normal, but a misplaced lens ?

I am asking this because although it sounds possible, it smells suspicious.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
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Sorry Ruben, this has not happened to me. I thought by your post, that you might be mentioning misplacing equipment. I somehow, somewhere lost an Olympus XA4 years ago. Strange, because I have the last roll of film shot with it.

Apologies for rambling elsewhere!
 
Hi Ruben,

It sounds to me as if someone has previously dismantled the lens and re-assembled it incorrectly - with the focusing helix misaligned, perhaps?
 
oscroft said:
Hi Ruben,

It sounds to me as if someone has previously dismantled the lens and re-assembled it incorrectly - with the focusing helix misaligned, perhaps?
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Hi Alan,
Had I know how do you do it on the RC, I could look for tracks. But from the overall look of the inside it doesn't look anyone messed with the camera before me.

And, I repeat, the distance scale and rf alignment were in perfect harmony. Could have this happened at the factory ?

Cheers,
Ruben
 
Hi Ruben,
I have just "found" my Pentax 200/2.8 that I had misplaced for about 6 months but that is a bit OT. :D

As far as your problem goes, I doubt it would be a factory error that slipped past Oly's quality control. I would suspect previous "tampering".

Kim
 
Thanks Kim,
I see no alternative than to run a test film. If I have not been mistaken and my re-alignment shows correct, then it will finally proove the lens was misplaced indeed and I will have a camera.
But it smells very strange.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
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