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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: geesbert on October 20, 2008, 08:27:54 am

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: geesbert on October 20, 2008, 08:27:54 am

Should the Leaf AFI  ork with the Rollei Close-up Tube ET 17? mine doesn't. i can take an exposure, but the f-stop is greyed aout and doesn't seem to work.

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: yaya on October 20, 2008, 08:43:29 am

Quote from: geesbert

Should the Leaf AFI  ork with the Rollei Close-up Tube ET 17? mine doesn't. i can take an exposure, but the f-stop is greyed aout and doesn't seem to work.

I'm assuming that you are referring to the aperture control in Leaf Capture?
Which lens are you working with? To which mode (A, S or M) is the body set?
If it is a manual or an AF lens (not AFD) then you need to make sure that the aperture ring is set to "A"

If this persists, please contact your dealer so they can follow it up.

BR

Yair

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: Graham Mitchell on October 20, 2008, 08:58:47 am

I'm not sure about this but someone once told me that the earlier tubes didn't have full support for the latest lenses, and had to be updated. How old are the tubes? This might be totally irrelevant (or inaccurate) but you could try googling it anyway and see.

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: geesbert on October 20, 2008, 11:12:42 am

After playing around with it a bit more, I found out that twisting the lens a bit in its mount makes a contact. seems that some of the contact pins are either worn out or bent. thanks for you help!

Stefan

edit: AF doesn't work. this thing is going back to its seller...

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: bradleygibson on October 20, 2008, 11:41:15 am

Quote from: geesbert

After palying around with it a bit more, I found out that twisting the lens a bit in its mount makes a contact. seems that some of the contact pins are either worn out or bent. thanks for you help!

Stefan

As confirmation, I have an ET-9 tube, and all functions including AF, stop-down, and exposures all work fine.

-Brad

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: Adina on October 21, 2008, 03:38:18 am

Quote from: foto-z

I'm not sure about this but someone once told me that the earlier tubes didn't have full support for the latest lenses, and had to be updated. How old are the tubes? This might be totally irrelevant (or inaccurate) but you could try googling it anyway and see.

i think, the non HFT lenses will have this effect ...

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: BJNY on October 21, 2008, 06:12:10 am

Quote from: Adina

i think, the non HFT lenses will have this effect ...

I'm not 100% sure, but I recall lenses have been HFT-coated since the original SLX days.

Perhaps you meant to write PQ and PQS?

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: geesbert on October 21, 2008, 06:24:34 am

upon closer inspection i found out, that the little plastic cover plate for the contacts that is held down by two screws was tightened too much and broke. Braunschweig is sending me a spare...


Stefan

Title: Leaf Afi with Rollei Tubes
Post by: Adina on October 21, 2008, 07:49:17 am

Quote from: BJNY

I'm not 100% sure, but I recall lenses have been HFT-coated since the original SLX days.

Perhaps you meant to write PQ and PQS?

oh , sorry , yes non PQ / PQS ...