Summitar Focus Problems...!!!

[benkelley]

Help! I bought a Summitar off the 'bay and the glass looks great... but it doesn't focus so well on my M8 🙁 I got a decent price on it... so I'm thinking of sending it off to DAG and just getting it fixed. I need to call him on monday to find the price... But I wanted some opinions first. Is this a common problem, easy to fix? Or should I just return the lens.

Thanks!

Ben

 

[lkgroup]

This might be to obvious, but once I forgot to lock my Summitar in correct position and the resulting negs were very soft. Normally the lens is sharp.

Just a thought to make sure you locked the lens correctly once you opened it up.

leo

 

[benkelley]

Thanks Leo! I did make sure it was locked, and it's not just 'soft'... out of focus by a couple of feet!

 

[maddoc]

The Summitar is screw-mount and the M8 is m-mount ... Which adapter do you use ? Did you test other screw-mount lenses with your M8 ?

 

[rogue_designer]

LTM? Did you get a bum adapter maybe?

 

[benkelley]

nope... Adapter works fine with my 50mm nokton... I tried another ltm adapter, too, also cv, and it worked fine as well 🙁
it's the only lens i've had a problem with.