Originally posted by MJKoski Heya! I need a bit of help here. I just purchased K-mount 50mm Makro Planar but it does not focus to infinity on my K-1 mk2. Infinity stop is reached a tiny bit too soon. Does anyone have any experience adjusting the register distance? According to this article:
Repairing Zeiss Distagon 35mm f2 ZF2 Focus Wobble there might be infinity focusing adjustment shims in place.
I had a few of the Zeiss K mount lenses, and I believe these should have infinity focus at the hard stop. My new Loxia trio however all have infinity focus befóre the hard stop, which is by design: changing conditions might affect the infinity hard stop accuracy, at least that is what I read. So to ensure availability of infinity focus in all circumstances, Zeiss adjusts the infinity focus just befóre the hard stop.
But with the EVF magnification this is no problem, whereas with the K5IIs, I did have to rely on the hard stop, because I could not judge focus accuracy through the OVF.
Anyhow, I believe common practice here in Europe, is to send the lens to Zeiss Oberkochen for adjustment.
Would you seriously disassemble a lens like the truly wonderful 50MP (still miss it) yourself?
Chris