Calibration recommendations

CaptZoom · 10-13-2012

My rangefinder is out of calibration. The M9 took a hard but cushioned hit, and at least the infinity focus is way out. I'm in Los Angeles. Are there any recommended vendors for bringing calibrating it? I don't wanna part with the camera for weeks, ie send it to Leica NJ. Also what's the ball park figure I'm looking at for this service?

flash · 10-13-2012

It's only 50c for a 2mm Allen key. Then you just need a target at least a couple of miles away. The process is simple as long as you take your time. You should be able to do it yourself in about 10 minutes.

Gordon

P.s. I've done both of mine. It's really not that hard.

peterm1 · 10-13-2012

I cant speak for USA but I had mine adjusted by a local technician in Australia and I think it cost about $120. I did some preparatory work however. It was easier for me in the sense that mine was mainly a close focus issue. I got a piece of board about two meters long and marked a central focus point plus 20mm marks in front and behind it for some distance. I then set up the board a measured 3 meters from my focal plane (camera on a tripod pointing down towards the board on the floor at about 45 degrees.) I then focused on the central focus point first with the rangefinder then with the scale. I repeated this with about 5-6 lenses. All were out a similar amount. This gave the technician info he needed to know how far he had to adjust the rangfinder and no doubt saved some trial and error time.

ChristianD · 10-14-2012

I doubt this is your problem - but I'll throw it out there because I think it's funny.

I just picked up an M9P on Friday and spent the weekend getting familiarized with it. I was thinking that mine was also out of calibration - because my photographs all looked OOF on the LCD screen. Then I imported into Lightroom and they look killer. I'm really disappointed by the quality of the LCD.

muser53 · 10-14-2012

Call Steve Choi in Culver city...

http://www.stevecamera.com/

CaptZoom · 10-14-2012

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Originally Posted by ChristianD

I doubt this is your problem - but I'll throw it out there because I think it's funny.

I just picked up an M9P on Friday and spent the weekend getting familiarized with it. I was thinking that mine was also out of calibration - because my photographs all looked OOF on the LCD screen. Then I imported into Lightroom and they look killer. I'm really disappointed by the quality of the LCD.

The LCD is crap! I have mine set to off! It only gets used for lens ID setting and ISO changes. That's it.

CaptZoom · 10-14-2012

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Originally Posted by muser53

Call Steve Choi in Culver city...

http://www.stevecamera.com/

Thank you.