Hi

I just acquired a 75mm Summliux and had read earlier in another forum that someone had his lens aligned to a specific body. Is there something about this lens that needs to be customised? Is there anyway I can check whether mine needs to be matched as well? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated :-)

Greg

-- Gregory Goh (GregoryGoh@hotmail.com), April 14, 2002

Answers

Hello Greg,

could have been a KONICA HEXAR RF-camera. With any properly adjusted LEICA M- camera you should not have any trouble.

Good shooting, you will like your lens.

I have one and it performs great. When I shoot in artificial light, I normally use a 60 mm KB 12 correctionfilter with it. With f1.4 the lens is still fast enough with ASA 200 or 400 film.

Best wishes

-- K. G. Wolf (k.g.wolf@web.de), April 14, 2002.

I think the pretext is that M bodies all have slightly (minutely) different alignment characteristics, as do most lenses, so it is possible to find one body that is more perfectly matched to a given lens than another. This could be especially true with lenses of very shallow DOF, such as the 75 Summilux at f1.4.

Personally, I never found any significant differences in focusing my Noctilux or my 90APO wide open on my .58 body or either of my .72 bodies...

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), April 14, 2002.

Hi Greg

I have used my 75mm Summilux on three M6s and an M3. All tested out dead on with the rangefinder. There may be exceptions, but this is one great lens--you are going to love it!

-- Lou McClellan (lou_mcclellan@hotmail.com), April 14, 2002.

Ditto on liking the 75 lux...with the 35 lux the M system is what it's supposed to be- simple and effective.

-- James (snodoggydogg@hotmail.com), April 14, 2002.

Ditto here. My 75 and M6 worked perfectly together from the beginning and still do. Same with the 40mm summicron. No problems at all. Good luck.

-- Peter C. McDonough (31416@attbi.com), April 14, 2002.

Thanks to everyone for the advice :-) I think I'll just not bother about the (potential) alignment problems unless the photos indicate a problem, and in the meantime I'll just enjoy the "look" !

Greg

-- Gregory Goh (GregoryGoh@hotmail.com), April 15, 2002.