{"id":2634,"date":"2009-09-30T21:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T20:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2009-09-30T23:26:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T22:26:12","slug":"broke-a-bessa-bought-a-leica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/broke-a-bessa-bought-a-leica\/","title":{"rendered":"Broke a Bessa, bought a Leica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Voigtlander Bessa R2M is busted again.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This piece fell off the viewfinder.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look at all the dust in the viewfinder.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought it was time to buy an R4M for the wider framelines, but did I want another temporary upgrade? I decided to buy the Leica M6 instead.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/10331_165666220271_606855271_4132849_8005773_n.jpg\" alt=\"_n\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have my suspicions that my 35mm f1.7 Ultron lens is screwed as well but I&#8217;m still doing tests. The whole front half of the lens is loose; basically everything after the focusing ring is currently only loosely connected to everything before and including the focusing ring. The lens literally rattles when I walk down the street with the cam hanging from my back. Once I buy a new lens, both the R2M and this lens will be going to Japan for repair.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo3.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo3-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent shots with the Bessa have been mostly out of focus. I took a test roll with the Leica to see if the lens was OK. Delta 400 developed in XTOL, and The Massive Dev chart for iPhone.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo2.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These shots were at f\/8 so you can&#8217;t really tell if the focus is a little off or not.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LEICA053.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LEICA054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LEICA055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LEICA058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>f\/2.8 or 4, can&#8217;t remember which.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LEICA060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p>f\/2. Focus has apparently gone walkabout.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LEICA061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Focus should be on the woman but appears to be on the bag of the guy on the left.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LEICA065.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fine focus, slow shutter.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LEICA068.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So some of the shots are off &#8211; is it a busted lens, or a back focus problem? Blah.<\/p>\n<p>I want to buy the 35\/1.2 Nokton, but Severin tells me Voigtlander lenses have back-focus issues with Leica cameras. I&#8217;m not sure if it was just one lens he tested or if it is a known common problem. Summicrons are too expensive. Zeiss in an option. More research needed.<\/p>\n<p>This blog was written and published by wordpress for iPhone &#8211; how cool is that!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo4.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo4-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Voigtlander Bessa R2M is busted again. This piece fell off the viewfinder. Look at all the dust in the viewfinder. I thought it was time to buy an R4M for the wider framelines, but did I want another temporary upgrade? I decided to buy the Leica M6 instead. I have my suspicions that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[517,514,516,513,512,515,430,227],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-1-2-nokton","tag-35mm-ultron-1-7","tag-houda","tag-leica-m6","tag-moe","tag-the-massive-dev-chart-iphone","tag-voigtlander-bessa-r2m","tag-yassin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.t52.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}