edwardkaraa wrote:
Adam, Leica service cannot calibrate framelines. They are part of the VF design. To be honest I wasn\'t happy with the M9 framelines because they were accurate at 1m but showed almost 1/3 more at infinity. The M240 framelines are more usable because they show like 15% less of the image at MFD and about the same extra at infinity. You have to frame loosely at MFD and tightly at infinity. Part of your problem I think is the offset finder rather than framelines calibration.
Very nice flower shot by the way. I like it even with the cut off flower.
Hi Edward,
The frame lines are calibrated as part of the RF calibration procedure. I know on the M9/MM I had them calibrated regularly with the lenses I also sent down to be matched. Particularly the 50 Lux and 75 Lux. A number of times, coming from Solms, they were off by about a 1/4 to 1/3 of a frame, so it only took a day to be readjusted, and they were accurate, at least for portrait work at 1 to 2m.
The problem with the M240, is that no local Leica repairer is authorized to do the calibration. The offset finder, should not be too much of an issue, if lines are accurate, or least you can then compensate for close, medium and far. I have had one M240 sent back for re calibration, as it drifted a lot, no long after I had purchased, and RF calibration was fine, but the frame lines were further out.
Adam, nice shot BTW I think the 75 Cron Apo is a very under rated lens.
edwardkaraa wrote:
Adam, Leica service cannot calibrate framelines. They are part of the VF design. To be honest I wasn\'t happy with the M9 framelines because they were accurate at 1m but showed almost 1/3 more at infinity. The M240 framelines are more usable because they show like 15% less of the image at MFD and about the same extra at infinity. You have to frame loosely at MFD and tightly at infinity. Part of your problem I think is the offset finder rather than framelines calibration.
Very nice flower shot by the way. I like it even with the cut off flower.
Hi Edward,
The frame lines are calibrated as part of the RF calibration procedure. I know on the M9/MM I had them calibrated regularly with the lenses I also sent down to be matched. Particularly the 50 Lux and 75 Lux. A number of times, coming from Solms, they were off by about a 1/4 frame, so it only took a day to be readjusted, and they were accurate, at least for portrait work at 1 to 2m. One coming back from Solms, my M9P would about a 1/3 of the frame off, so it was quickly readjusted.
The problem with the M240, is that no local Leica repairer is authorized to do the calibration. The offset finder, should not be too much of an issue, if lines are accurate, or least you can then compensate for close, medium and far. I have had one M240 sent back for re calibration, as it drifted a lot, no long after I had purchased, and RF calibration was fine, but the frame lines were further out.
Adam, nice shot BTW I think the 75 Cron Apo is a very under rated lens.
edwardkaraa wrote:
Adam, Leica service cannot calibrate framelines. They are part of the VF design. To be honest I wasn\'t happy with the M9 framelines because they were accurate at 1m but showed almost 1/3 more at infinity. The M240 framelines are more usable because they show like 15% less of the image at MFD and about the same extra at infinity. You have to frame loosely at MFD and tightly at infinity. Part of your problem I think is the offset finder rather than framelines calibration.
Very nice flower shot by the way. I like it even with the cut off flower.
Hi Edward,
The frame lines should be part of the RF calibration. I know on the M9/MM I had them calibrated regularly with the lenses I also sent down to be matched. Particularly the 50 Lux and 75 Lux. A number of times, coming from Solms, they were off by about a 1/4 frame, so it only took a day to be readjusted, and they were accurate, at least for portrait work at 1 to 2m. One coming back from Solms, my M9P would about a 1/3 of the frame off, so it was quickly readjusted.
The problem with the M240, is that no local Leica repairer is authorized to do the calibration. The offset finder, should not be too much of an issue, if lines are accurate, or least you can then compensate for close, medium and far. I have had one M240 sent back for re calibration, as it drifted a lot, no long after I had purchased, and RF calibration was fine, but the frame lines were further out.
Adam, nice shot BTW I think the 75 Cron Apo is a very under rated lens.
I think the 75 Cron Apo is a very under rated lens.