Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:13 PM 10/13/97 EDT, Marvin Moss wrote: > I also used to have a device that was called a PLOOT that was >used (even before the VISO I) by Dr. Paul Wolff at the 1936 Berlin >Olympics with the early 20cm Leitz Telyt and it is difficult to imagine >how these photographers ever got great pix with these inefficient >gadgets - so I guess there is no substitute for talent. Oh, Marvin! I have several PLOOT's and have used them without a great deal of trouble. And I'm hardly a 'talented' photographer! The PLOOT was a Leitz product, an offshoot of their medical Epidiascope. It was introduced at the instigation of the German government for the '36 Olympics, along with the Zeiss Ikon Flektoskop for their Contax RF's. The initial PLOOT had a non-detachable finder; by 1940, the PLOOT had a removeable finder with a right-angle, reversed field PAMOO finder available as well as the POOIM vertical finder. The mildly redesigned Viso I was introduced in 1951. The name 'Visoflex', interestingly, was publicized by Leitz in 1940 but not formally adopted until 1951. Marc Marc James Small Cha Robh Bas Fir, Gun Ghras Fir! FAX: +540/343-7315