Re: [KOML] Focusing Q with Different Lenses

["Philip Morgan" <phmorgan@home.com>]

Greg Weber is the tech in question here and I have found him to be both a
top-notch tech and an upstanding businessman.  I just had my KO Rapid CLA'd
and it's making better images that ever now.

Here's the address information I have for Mr. Weber:
Greg Weber
2022 East 7th Street
Fremont, NE 68025
gweber@teknetwork.com

--Philip Morgan.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mel Brown <melbrown@eatel.net>
To: Koni-Omega Mailing List <koni-omega@snoopy.cmagic.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [KOML] Focusing Q with Different Lenses


> Tom Cogbill wrote:
>
> > I have been scratching my head lately over the following: I recently
> > acquired
> > the 180 and 58 mm lenses for my K-O 200.  Now when I have the standard
> > 90 mm
> > lens on and focus through the rangefinder (RF), the two images inside
> > align pretty much in accordance with the distance, as I have measured
> > it, up to  about  15 ft (and probably thereafter, as well-I just haven't
> > measured it any farther).  When I switch to the 180 lens, and look
> > through the RF, everything stays exactly the same-the two images
> > coincide at the same distances as before, using the 90....
>
> > I've been told that the silver post(s) on the top right of the lens
> > where it attaches to the camera tells the camera what lens is being
> > attached....
>
> Tom, you heard right. The two pins on the 180 (and 135) lenses influence
the
> behavior of the rangefinder. There are adjustments under the hood of those
> lenses. And there are adjustments inside the camera body.
>
> It is not generally recommended that an untrained individual tinker with
any
> of those adjustments, lest the problem get worse. That's very likely why
> your 180mm lens is not causing the rangefinder to track properly now. I
> strongly suggest you send the camera and both lenses to a professional
> camera technician who is thoroughly familiar with Konis.
>
> But since yours seems so grossly off, there is one easily-repaired thing I
> can think of that just may be causing your problem. There is a spring near
> the front end of the posts in the 135 and 180 lenses. If it is broken or
has
> somehow become unhooked, the pins will not exert the needed pressure on
the
> rangefinder mechanism in the body. The result would be very much as if the
> pins were not there at all, and the body would respond more like a 58 or
90
> lens.
>
> This is very easy to check. Push on the pins; if they don't spring back,
> pull the top cover off the lens and fix the spring. Otherwise, send the
> whole package off to get it calibrated properly. There is one person in
> particular who is very much an expert with Konis, but I can't remember
> anything at the moment but his first name: Greg. I'm sure someone else can
> supply you with his e-mail address and phone number.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Mel
>
>