Why does ALPA offer adjustable adapters for digital backs?
Adjustable back adapters (max. 3/10 mm, adjustable in single steps right down to 1/100 mm) with reuseable shims of various thickness are exclusive to ALPA. We have introduced these adapters some years ago even though our own components were and are manufactured to the highest degree of precision. The reason? With this we could, and still can, remove some problems: Possible areas of problems: • digital back out of tolerance (and customer does not realises this) • adjustable ALPA adapter got altered by customer • lens misaligned • other components out of tolerance 1. Often the customer does not realises that the digital back is not sacrosanct. We often face customer problems when they upgrade their back or have a loaner. Everything else stays the same but results are different and the customer often does not question the back or the new filter glass et al. 2. Instead of taking pictures first they try to fiddle around where they shouldn’t and do not know what originally was installed. We
