Rangefinder alignment drama...

[foto_fool]

I understand the math - and yet the 50/2 makes fine images wide open. It may be a film plane/sensor plane mismatch (my 50/0.95 is a TV-to-M conversion, collimated for a Leica M3) or it may be a general issue for fast lenses on cropped sensors. The E-300 will produce good images with the 50/1.2 (and MF-1 adapter) only at f4 and smaller, while the 50/1.4 and 50/1.8 are opened up to f2.8.

- John

 

[Efra1]

Focus troubles...

Focus troubles...

Hi everybody, I´m having problems whit my R-D1 an a Noctilux 1.2 lens, well tody I was testing the lens in a night shoot, and I see that all the pics I shoot in 1.2 apperture was complety OUT of focus, it have the focus behind the objet I make the focus, I can see too that the infinite line don match well.

This can be caused by a grown alligment of the wievfinder??

Thanks and please forget about my english 😉

 

[jlw]

Hi everybody, I´m having problems whit my R-D1 an a Noctilux 1.2 lens, well tody I was testing the lens in a night shoot, and I see that all the pics I shoot in 1.2 apperture was complety OUT of focus, it have the focus behind the objet I make the focus, I can see too that the infinite line don match well.

This can be caused by a grown alligment of the wievfinder??

Thanks and please forget about my english 😉

Hello! Your suspicion is correct: If lines don't match up at infinity, then the rangefinder is out of adjustment. This will cause pictures to be out of focus at all distances.

If you are skilled with small tools, you can make the adjustment by following instructions on Rich Cutler's R-D 1 website. It is not necessary to remove the entire top of the camera -- you can remove the accessory shoe to get access to the infinity adjustment.

But... it is delicate work, and other adjustments can be damaged if you make a mistake. So you may prefer to have a camera technician do this adjustment for you.

 

[Efra1]

Hello! Your suspicion is correct: If lines don't match up at infinity, then the rangefinder is out of adjustment. This will cause pictures to be out of focus at all distances.

If you are skilled with small tools, you can make the adjustment by following instructions on Rich Cutler's R-D 1 website. It is not necessary to remove the entire top of the camera -- you can remove the accessory shoe to get access to the infinity adjustment.

But... it is delicate work, and other adjustments can be damaged if you make a mistake. So you may prefer to have a camera technician do this adjustment for you.

Thaks a lot JLW, that´s wath I think, anyway I send the camera today to a micro-technician 😉.
Hope it back fine...