Aftabulis Posted February 17, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted February 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Any Leica experts who have dealt with tri elmar lens'? Â I am shooting with a Tri Elmar on my m8 and it stopped showing the different border lines. It used to work fine, and switched smoothly, and now it just ceased to work... It still shoots properly and the latch on the front of the camera changes position when I change the setting. Also what does that lever/button next to the lens actually do on the m8? Any suggestions on the bars for the lens settings? Â Thanks for the help Aftabulis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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carstenw Posted February 17, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted February 17, 2007 The little lever manually changes the frame lines. Â If you put another lens on, do you see the lines? Â If you manually change the lines without a lens on, do they change? Â Which lines do you see with no lens on? Â The middle window on the front of the camera isn't covered by something, is it? That is where the light for the framelines comes from. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftabulis Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share #3 Â Posted February 17, 2007 I believe its stuck on the 28m setting and there are still frame lines they just dont change... Odd, as it used to work just fine... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftabulis Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share #4 Â Posted February 17, 2007 OK I take that back, It must be stuck o the 35mm setting as when I switch to other ones theres like a speck of what appears to be the frame lines that dissapear when I put it on to the 35mm setting... They look like dust spots that are the exacy shade as the frame lines, just small cuts of them that look like spots, like one or two, and they are towars the middle so I think the may be from the 50mm.... Its wierd... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftabulis Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share #5 Â Posted February 17, 2007 Wow I fixed it, I opened it (took the lens off) toggled the parts that the lever moves when you switch it back and forth a few times, then I got 50mm back then after switching back and forth a couple times they came back, thanks god and thanks for the help... Â What should I know about the lever, Do I ever move that manually or does switching the lens setting do that automatically and you arent supposed to move that at all manually? Is that lever to cue thebars to the right place? Â Thanks, if you have a link to somewhere that explains that or if you dont feel like explaining that I understand, I just like to understand why this stuff is there so I can treat my camera properly, Â Thanks again, Aftabulis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted February 17, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted February 17, 2007 The purpose of the lever is to allow you to preview the other frames without having to change lenses... the lever overrides the setting from the lens bayonet. Â Sounds like something is a bit sticky in the frame selection but it may settle down with a little working of the lever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gman Posted February 17, 2007 Share #7 Â Posted February 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) This is a problem that Leica has known about since Photokina, at least. I used an M8 at Photokina with this same problem and alerted the Leica people to the Tri Elmar problem at that time. Other M8 samples worked fine with the lens, so it appears to be a small number of cameras with this issue. Â I just received my M8 last week and have not had this problem (yet?). Â Â jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted February 17, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted February 17, 2007 Is it a 1st version tri-elmar? Those are well known for dodgy frame-line changes, even on different film-bodies. Mine only shows the 50 mm lines when I switch from 28, not when coming from 35. I have learnt not to bother, but jiggle the thing and up they come. It was better on my M6 TTL but when I borrowed a M7 it was worse than the M8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftabulis Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share #9 Â Posted February 18, 2007 Yeah thats exactly how I would describe the situation with the lens, a bit dodgy... It started working fine again like I said, but I still have a feeling that it could happen again at any time, it just doesnt feel like a solid mechanism, but I am thankful that its back to normal for now... Â Small problem for an otherwise remarkable lens/camera combination... If anyone wants to see some shots just let me know and I wil try to make som available. Â Aftabulis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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