50mm Lux asph...Barrel Wobble Normal??

[jaapv]

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Well, my wobble was not large, but Leica felt the lens had to be repaired.

[ramosa]

I purchased this version of the Lux 50 toward the end of the summer--and have not experienced any such problems. I would definitely send it in for repair/replacement.

[!Nomad64]

Looks like there's something loosened inside. I had the very same problem with a ZM Sonnar, sent to Zeiss for servicing and received it with no wobble at all. Have it overhauled before the play might damage any thread or compromise alignment.

 

Cheers,

Bruno

[D&A]

Thanks everyone for all your comments and feedback. My aquantence received his lens back from Leica. It's now solid as a rock with no play. It's hard to imagine that they simply add additonal grease between the helicals to remove Play (wobble). I've heard of this approach with some very old lenses where parts (helicals?) have play...but I supposed Leica does a bit more than this to fix the issue in the current 50mm Lux asph.

 

Dave (D&A)

[tobey bilek]

Reading threads like this makes me reconsider buying a M9.

 

The trend seems to be optical quality up, mechanics out of control. Been going in this direction for two decades now. My old lenses never had any work required except those I bought used and just sat unsued by the first owner. They needed relube.

 

The whole issue started with 35 2.0 ver 4 lensshades being crooked because the front was glued in rotated off center. Then they said it was acceptable if the shade rotated a little , no image would be cut off. Multi thousand dollar camera with a crooked shade is acceptabel? Not to me. And neither are brand new items having to be returned immediately for service. QC Dept. gone?

[russell]

The whole issue started with 35 2.0 ver 4 lensshades being crooked because the front was glued in rotated off center.

This is a known fault of the earlier ver 4 crons. It's a design fault from 1980s. Later ver 4 crons don't have this.

I also have problems with current Leica QC and CS. However this specific problem they've since corrected in the newer lenses.

[lct]

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...The whole issue started with 35 2.0 ver 4 lensshades being crooked because the front was glued in rotated off center...

Also with the problems of the M4-2. We feared that it was the beginning of the end then. Now most if not all old lens designs did remain reliable since then and some new ones are still on par with the latters to be honest.