Sorta off topic

[treeshugger]

But I dont want to go through the Hassel of registering at a different forum and you all know so much.

Just picked up the 500c/m for my student photography and a have to read the manual thoroughly, but I noticed at infinity focus the image in the split screen focus still does not quite line up. Is the screen giving me mis-information or can the lens actually not focus at infinity?

[Mark_Cohran]

Did the split image line-up at any point along the way? By that I mean, did it line up and split slightly again as you went beyond the initial alignment as you reached the end of the focus ring movement? It's been a while since I've used my Mamiya MF, but IIRC, a couple of my lenses would go just beyond infinity - by that I mean, I would reach focus just before the end of the focus ring range and then the camera would defocus slights just beyond that as it reached the end of the range.

What do the prints look like?

Mark

[treeshugger]

Its just outta the box so no prints until tonight. The lens stops focusing just before infinity, not after like canon lenses. Looks like it wouldn't make too much of a difference even at f/2.8 but Ive never used medium format so I wouldn't know.

[treeshugger]

Hassie got some problems
The pictures look good, but I took them using the professor's back.
Wont take pictures with my 12 attached (as though the slide is still in) and the light seal is coming out of the 24
who can help?

[treeshugger]

So I figured out how to work the 12 back and got a kit to fix the 24 back
focus is still bad
the viewfinder tells me to focus in back of where the actual focus is
the lens says 14 feet when the object at 10 feet is sharp in the finder, but on the negative the object at 14 feet is sharp
i tried switching screens and removing the prism, but no change
it i focus by distance, its fine, but this is impractical

[Wilt]

Somebody unloaded a troubled Hasselblad on you. No way any camera should behave like what you described, least of all a Hassy

Remove the focusing screen, and look at the bodie's surface that it would normally rest on. Is there any kind of shim that lifts the screen higher than it should be without the shim? Sometimes non-original focusing screen vendors need to use some compensation to get their screens to focus at the right point.

[treeshugger]

Moral: Ebay gives David Odess good business

[treeshugger]

Just want to reccomend the work of David Odess. He fixed the camera, re-sealed the back, fitted the back tighter to the camera, hooked me up with a new slide, callibrated the focus, and shipped it back to me under $100.