Do other fast/long lenses on the same body focus at infinity
correctly?
Are fotos taken at nominal infinity unsharp?
The problem may be a mispositioning of the mirror or focus screen in
the body, and affecting all shots.
Tom
On Monday, October 08, 2001 at 15:50, Dr. Rainer Wagner
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on "[OM] OT: Kiron 28-105 problems," saying..
> Hi folks,
> this is the only photo list I am on, with very friendly and helpful
> people, so I dare to ask this OT question. I bought a Kiron 28-105
> lens for my daughter a while ago , in c*n*n FD mount ( she loves her
> battered AE 1 ) .Perfect looking lens, no signs of problems, but I
> could not test it. Yesterday, when I gave it to her , it turned out
> that the lens cannot focus to infinity at all positions. Does anybody
> know, if this can eventually be adjusted in a simple way, or should I
> refrain from trying this at home? By the way, stopping down to f 8
> seems to give a sharp picture in the viewfinder , so the difference
> should be small.
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