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Message: <blockquote data-quote="St. Elmo" data-source="post: 3351753" data-attributes="member: 49831"><p>Guy and gals.... the focus freeplay in the first generation of Ultravids was experienced by a lot of purchasers... It became known as the "null spot" problem. When the HD's came out, my Leica dealer went so far to say (without prompting) that the freeplay problems that plagued the first generation of UV's were fixed. So, I guess it was a design problem... The point of all this is that there was a flaw, I gave Leica a chance to fix it. They didn't and they didn't check the product before it went out the door. The freeplay was a built in flaw... okay, most bins have something that could be better (nothing's perfect), but the audacity of Leica to return it to me not fixed and with more wrong than when they received it was too much for me.... take from this what your may. I share it not to bury Leica, but to praise Zeiss (and to state my surprise that the problem has arisen again).</p></blockquote><p></p>