*Istds kit lens on my me super

Tried the kit (18-55) lens on my me super last night thinking it would give a very wide view (it did) and maybe a mild fish eye effect. what i wasn't ready for was that it wouldn't focus properly on the me. ie at a distance of 1.5 metres on the me (at 18mm) i had to set focus on infinity to get it crisp, and at 55mm i had to set it just a tad short of infinity.
can anyone explain this?

I've just tried it out on an ME that was handy, and it focuses just fine at settings of 24mm upwards, in fact it doesn't look as though there is that much vignetting from that point onwards.

At 18mm there is severe vignetting (the corners go almost black) because the lens is designed to cover the smaller CCD format, but it does still focus and the split image screen works fine as well.

I'm glad you mentioned it, because I will now give it a go with a film camera body on slide film, and the darkening of the corners might well be quite acceptable from about 24mm to 55mm.

What I can say is that the viewfinders of ME series cameras do require that we can focus our eyes at the appropriate distance, although they do have built-in -1 doptre eyepiecses, which will help. I use my computer screen glasses with M series cameras, to ensure I can see the screen easily. I don't know if this might be a factor for you or not, but I just offer it as a thought.

Thanks for that john, i had my eyes tested a few weeks ago cos i can never see my golf ball as easily as my playing partners - result 20:20 vision. The guy said i should try hitting up the middle once in a while!

I'll try again on the me and take some more time over it, but i felt sure it wasn't focussing at all at the wide end before the infinity point.