[rollei_list] Rollei taking and viewing lens alignment

  • From: chatanooga@xxxxxxxxx
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:36:57 +0100

Hi Folks
I finally shipped out my FX to get the rewind-tripping-shutter issue looked
at and also to re-calibrate the focussing. The repair house has come back
quickly to point out that in fact the camera has at some stage been a victim
of gravity (my humour...) and is quite a bit out of alignment. They are in
Germany and are well respected so I am quite happy to give them the go ahead
with the repairs.  One thing I'm now curious about though is that I had
always noticed that the taking and viewing lenses were not exactly parallel
- they appeared to be aligned ever so slightly 'into' each other. I simply
thought this was to do with parallax minimisation but am now wondering that
is not normal and in fact was a gross manifestation of the alignment probs.
In short should the lens pair be exacty parallel?
I might add I never did any 'brick-wall' tests (taking a photo of, that
is...) but had been fairly happy apart from wide open focussing.
rgds to all
Chat

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