–Finally heard back from Leica Parts. They won’t sell me a vertical adjuster cap, but rather want me to send the camera to New Jersey.
–Got the Sony out again, and figured out how to do magnified focus. Took photos on front and back patios. Breathtaking sharpness in both auto and manual focus modes. I sort of knew this would happen, given the gorgeous photos I got in La Selva Beach, but still, it sure puts the whammy on Leica M’s. There’s now zero reason to use them, except for nostalgia and snob appeal. I may keep the M-E to kind of “go with” the old Contax and Canon SLR’s; we’ll see. [edit] Well, tried the M-E and the Sony on my night shot. M-E sucked, likely because of the “king of bokeh” lens I had on it. And as it turns out, the Sony–like the Visoflex 2–is almost impossible to focus at night. It might improve with practice, or by focusing on something other than a globe light, but I’m thinking Sony for daytime, many lenses manually focused; and Hodinkee for night. Maybe. [edit 10] Screwed everything up. Tried to put the M10-P silver screw on the Hodinkee. It came off trivially earlier today. Tonight it did that horrible tilt/tighten thing, and would not come off for love or money. Ruined the camera; will toss. The screw on the Hodinkee is JUST passable for sale, I hope. There is no screw on the M10-P Safari. Guess I’ll put a sticker on it for sale. Those screws are awful. Will look (I guess) for an M10-R black, and hope it is vertically aligned.
–Got the rest of my refund back on the Reporter from eBay–in spades. eBay definitely knew this transaction on digree’s part was bogus.
