Equipment - Medium Format

Re: Pentacon 6 focussing problem

wrote:

> I have a few Pentacon 6 cameras with the standard lens and had one of
> them out yesterday evening to do some landscape photography and I had
> the feeling that the lens was not reaching infinity but rather, when
> set to infinity, it was focussing on something like 33 feet.

Most probably, the mirror is misaligned. Nothing that couldn't be cured
with a medium-sized sledgehammer.

Funny, though. A few months ago you were making one hell of a fuzz about
the minor shift in focus caused (or rather not) by the Noblex' focussing
mechanism and now you're using a camera with notorious film flatness
problems and whose mirror slap will practically guarantee blurred images
under all conceivable circumstances.

Ralf

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Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses

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Pentacon 6 focussing problem

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Ralf R. Radermacher wrote:
> RolandRB wrote:
>
> > As for the secondary principle point and the difference to
> > the movement of it when you are using front-cell focussing then the
> > technicalities would be beyond your comprehension.
>
> Oh, are we being bold again? A least I know how to recognize an
> arrogant smartass if I see one.
>
> > The page on the user
> > manual that describes focussing is here:
> >
http://www.widepan.com/WIDEPAN-PRO2-MANUAL/A-PAGE-MAIN-PRO2-MANUAL-FOCAL.htm
>
> Nothing, absolutely nothing that would even remotely suggest
front-lens
> focussing.

You're quite right, now I have thought about it. Even if the whole lens
were moving, the displacement between focussing near 15' and far 40'
would only be about 0.1mm.

> > Why don't you buy a focussing model so you can get out to
> > infinity or use your 202 with a fast film (and pretend the grain
was
> > intentional)?
>
> I'd rather let you do the pretending. You're much better at it than I
> could ever hope to become.
>
> > I have a web site but it contains what I do for a job of work and
no
> > hobby stuff. It is off-topic for this newsgroup.
>
> Since when is pro work off-topic, here?

I have never claimed to earn a living from photography. I work in
computers. Photography is my hobby and nothing more.

> > My Noblex is still stored in England. It is were fixed-focussed to
even
> > 40' then I would be using it. 50' would be ideal.
>
> If...
>
> Ralf
>
> --
> Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - K=F6ln/Cologne, Germany
> private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de
> manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005
> Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses