Canon P: Vertical Alignment

[mabelsound]

Got my P today--wonderful shape, except the vertical alignment is off a bit. Does anyone know how to adjust it?

[ferider]

Congrats on your new camera.

You have to unscrew the cover ring of the round RF eye from the front.
Behind is a screw around the eye that you can twist slightly for the adjustment.

Roland.

[mabelsound]

Wow, that was fast, thanks!

[ferider]

No problem.

Adjusting vertical alignment might affect the horizontal one on the P. Here are better instructions than mine, also including how to align horizontally:

http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?CanonP.html~mainFrame

Roland.

[Brian Sweeney]

It is very easy, Karen Nakamura's site is where I learned about it. You will probably have to re-adjust the horizontal alignment AFTER getting the vertical corrected.

http://www.photoethnography.com/equipment.html

The site uses paged frames, so Click on "Canon P".

[mabelsound]

Weird--I've read that Karen Nakamura page a dozen times and never got that far down.

I adjusted it very easily a few minutes ago--it's perfect now. Not sure if my horizontal is off or not, as the lens I have on it now is a Jupiter-9, which needed shimming on my Bessa w/adapter...so I'll try tomorrow with a lens I know doesn't need a shim, and then readjust the horizontal.

Nice to have a camera where these things are easy to access. The P feels wonderful--I'll take it out shooting for the first time over the weekend.