johnbuckley Posted January 4, 2015 Share #1 Posted January 4, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Over the holiday, I was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and went snowshoeing on a brutally cold day (minus 20F.) I had previously that day used the R adaptor on my M, but switched to the 50 Summilux. I took a number of pictures of the friends we wrere out with, at all times trying to keep the Grand Teton and other mountain peaks in the frame. Because it was so cold, and the amount of time I dared take off my gloves so brief, my mind didn't catch that the frame lines rendered were oddly generous. And in the bright sunshine and cold, I didn't bother to chimp. It was only when we got into the warmth and I looked at what I shot that I discovered the lens must not have clicked in all the way, and what I thought were the 50 frame lines were actually the 35mm frame lines. Every picture had the mountains cut off!* I've never had this happen in 13 years of shooting Ms. Anyone else ever have their lens not click in properly to pull up the right framelines? *I suppose the good news is my lens didn't fall off and get lost in the snow :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Maarten Posted January 4, 2015 Share #2 Posted January 4, 2015 Hi John, I experienced something similar but then the other way around. In a hurry I used my 50mm adapter on my M39 Summaron 35mm. I noticed the frame lines but did not realize I used the wrong ones. So my pictures of the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin showed a lot more than I visualized (the Glienicker Brücke was used to exchange spies during the cold war). Not mounting a lens until it clicks sounds a bit odd and I cannot remember it ever happened to me. Maarten Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted January 4, 2015 Share #3 Posted January 4, 2015 I did it once - nearly lost the lens as it fell off just centimeters from the water’s edge.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandro Posted January 5, 2015 Share #4 Posted January 5, 2015 Happened to me a few times lately while using my Summar 2/50 with M-adapter and the Elmar 3.5/35mm with M-adapter. They clicked and I thught they were in correct position, but I had to use the frame-selector. They're Leitz adapters. Lex Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmahto Posted January 5, 2015 Share #5 Posted January 5, 2015 It happened to me once and it didn't focus properly. Forgot what lens. But now I am very careful about listening to the click sound. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbuckley Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share #6 Posted January 5, 2015 I think I shall wait for the click, too. Thank you. Could have been a lot worse... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaques Posted January 5, 2015 Share #7 Posted January 5, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) this happened to me on my first M240 when it was new. Sometimes it felt as if the lens had locked into placed- but it hadn't quite. From memory it occured with an old chrome pre-asph summilux 50 This caused the framelines to be dim, flicker and incomplete. It stopped shortly thereafter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted January 5, 2015 Share #8 Posted January 5, 2015 The chimp is one of the biggest advantages of digital. Another is dual card slots with duplicate info written to each. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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