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Even More M8 Fun [POST YER PIX!]

fotografz

Well-known member
fotografz, i just bought a used leica lens for 200$. when you say calibrated do you mean send it in to leica to adjust the focus? what was the cost of the calibration?

Here's a photo taken with my newly acquired used Leica Summicron 50mm f2.0 III (f2.0, 1/60, 160). I notice that to get the target area in focus, I need to shift the focus off to the right by almost a millimeter, otherwise it'll be out of focus.

– dan

Yep, same thing happened to me with this used 90/2.8 current version. I sent it to my Leica Dealers' recommended repair guy and it quickly came back focusing perfectly.

IMO, if it isn't warranty work, I would NOT send it to Leica ... Even warranty work is a crap shoot. I sent a NEW back-focusing 50/1.4 ASPH to them twice without any fix ... then included it in a batch of lenses and two M8s on December 3rd 2007 ... one M8 and the 50/1.4 ASPH, a 75/1.4, and a 90/2AA went to the "Black Hole" repair facility in Germany, and I haven't heard a peep since.

I'd send your lens to DAG for focus adjustment.
 

Daniel

New member
Yep, same thing happened to me with this used 90/2.8 current version. I sent it to my Leica Dealers' recommended repair guy and it quickly came back focusing perfectly.

IMO, if it isn't warranty work, I would NOT send it to Leica ... Even warranty work is a crap shoot. I sent a NEW back-focusing 50/1.4 ASPH to them twice without any fix ... then included it in a batch of lenses and two M8s on December 3rd 2007 ... one M8 and the 50/1.4 ASPH, a 75/1.4, and a 90/2AA went to the "Black Hole" repair facility in Germany, and I haven't heard a peep since.

I'd send your lens to DAG for focus adjustment.
thank you for the tip, but i'm afraid i don't know who is DAG. a shop?

- dan
 

robsteve

Subscriber
The 35mm Summicron ASHP has to be my favorite lens on the M8. It is small and performs well when shot wide open, as it was here.

Gene is an avid photographer and has taken many photography trips to the South Western USA. He told me he will be there again somtime next month.

 

fotografz

Well-known member
thank you for the tip, but i'm afraid i don't know who is DAG. a shop?

- dan
Don Goldberg, an excellent repair source ... can't locate his contact info ... maybe someone else here has it readily available and will post it for you along with other good sources.
 

Daniel

New member
Don Goldberg, an excellent repair source ... can't locate his contact info ... maybe someone else here has it readily available and will post it for you along with other good sources.
thanks fotografz, cindy posted a link a few posts back.


I'm very please with this lens. I don't find the back-focus a problem because I'm able to easily work around it. I think it'd still be worth the trouble to get it calibrated, but not until I get to play with it some more.

Leica Summicron 50mm f2.0 III (f5.6, 1/250, 160, Metz 20C-2 flash)
 
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fotografz

Well-known member
A few from a trip to LA last week to shoot a TV commercial and supervise CGI work.

Had the weekend and Presidents Day off to walk about with the M8 perpetually set to ISO 640. The new AWB is pretty good now.

1) on set ... some camera huh? M35 ASPH

2) Checking out the scenery : -) M90/2.8

3) Jesus takes a break. M90/2.8

4) War Protest near Santa Monica Pier. M28/2
 
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Guy Mancuso

Administrator, Instructor
After still being sick after 8 days being in bed or close to it. I need some real humor. Maybe go hang out with some street people and have some kind of fun. I'm bored shooting this corporate stuff . Whens my next workshop.


Okay hint San Juan , Street shooting and i am working on some fashion models for a complete l day of shooting in Old San Juan. Now that sounds like fun besides some street shooting the rest of the time.
 

Guy Mancuso

Administrator, Instructor
I think it is a Arri 16mm film movie camera. Nice hunk of gear , now there is that Mercedes you wanted. LOL
 

Maggie O

Active member
Looks like an Arriflex 35mm motion picture camera, with video capture (see the piece of toast on the monitor). Nice rig.

Arris are pretty cool, even if they aren't Mitchells. ;)
 

fotografz

Well-known member
Clearly that's not an M8 with a 35 Cron-asph, but what is it? model, film size, lens? Is it sucking down the monitor screen one frame at a time for your cgi material, or does it get to photograph real objects?

scott
Scott, it's an ARRI 35mm film camera with an Angeneux Zoom lens. It has live view video feed and recording for play backs of different takes for evaluation. Check out the the "tripod head" shown in this closer view : -)

Most of my TV commercial we am doing is CGI, but we shoot live footage for a portion of the final edit, and use other live footage as a guide for lighting the CGI work yet to be done.
 
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fotografz

Well-known member
I love Mitchell Movie cameras Maggie ... old time rock 'n roll. The "Mickey Mouse Ears" film transport cans are soooo cool.

I learned cinematography and editing the hard way ... shot my buddy's Beaulieu as a kid and manually edited in the basement the old fashioned way ... film hanging all over the place, tape splicing, etc. etc. Came in handy when I went into advertising later.

Stuff like that is long gone in the commercial editing world. Every thing is digital and fast as hell compared to the old days (which really aren't that long ago). Movieolas are relics used as decorations in lobbies of editing houses.
 
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