I have a Leaf Credo 60 in V mount. Without getting into too much detail, I started experiencing focusing errors and at first blamed my Linhof sliding back - two left / right frames to stitch consistently showed front and back focus respectively. Turned out not to be the case as another slider yielded same results with all the same lenses and camera etc.
Long story short, I thought to check the V adaptor plate by rotating it on the back in the slider and morning the back on the adaptor in both horizontal and vertical positions.
Without applying abnormal force to clip it in to the top V mount latches in portrait orientation, the point where the latches hook into the back made a disturbing ‘crack’ and the back is now completely stuck on the plate. No amount of force I’d be comfortable using can get it off… so perhaps this suggests the root of my left / right focus shift issues...
The back and / or plate is stuffed - well at least if that wasn’t the case before it certainly is now! At the very least I now have to send the back to Phase / Leaf to detach the plate and fix the mount plus check for sensor and mount alignment. I have no idea how a problem like this could suddenly arise. Baffling... any ideas?
Anyone out there had anything like this suddenly happen to their back, sensor and / or mount slipping out of alignment without any knock or warning?
Any idea what a service charge for the above runs for? I live in New Zealand so that does complicate things somewhat as we have no dealer network worth anything here. My back was purchased new here, but I am the second owner and have had it without problems for five years.
Thanks,
T
Long story short, I thought to check the V adaptor plate by rotating it on the back in the slider and morning the back on the adaptor in both horizontal and vertical positions.
Without applying abnormal force to clip it in to the top V mount latches in portrait orientation, the point where the latches hook into the back made a disturbing ‘crack’ and the back is now completely stuck on the plate. No amount of force I’d be comfortable using can get it off… so perhaps this suggests the root of my left / right focus shift issues...
The back and / or plate is stuffed - well at least if that wasn’t the case before it certainly is now! At the very least I now have to send the back to Phase / Leaf to detach the plate and fix the mount plus check for sensor and mount alignment. I have no idea how a problem like this could suddenly arise. Baffling... any ideas?
Anyone out there had anything like this suddenly happen to their back, sensor and / or mount slipping out of alignment without any knock or warning?
Any idea what a service charge for the above runs for? I live in New Zealand so that does complicate things somewhat as we have no dealer network worth anything here. My back was purchased new here, but I am the second owner and have had it without problems for five years.
Thanks,
T