RE: Vs: [Leica] Leica R death

[Peterson Arthur G NSSC <PetersonAG@NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL>]

That's very generous of you, Jem, and I thank you very much, but I think I
should decline.  I have the 200mm f/4.0 for Visoflex.  As you know, the
180mm f/2.8 for Visoflex is quite rare, hence my reference to the
desirability of bringing it back.  And of course zooms for Viso are even
more hard to come by (i.e., there never were any).  Since I already have the
200mm lens, which I use both with the Visoflex and with a reflex camera via
the 14167(?) adapter, I expect one of our other LUG Visoflex enthusiasts
could put your 180mm lens to more (and perhaps better) use than I.

You're probably right about the likelihood of Leica's ever producing
Visoflex lenses again.  On the other hand, I would not have expected any
more screwmount lenses either.

Thank you again for your offer.  Extremely thoughtful of you!

:-)

Art Peterson


- -----Original Message-----
From:	Jem Kime [mailto:jem.kime@cwcom.net]
Sent:	Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:51 AM
To:	'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject:	RE: Vs: [Leica] Leica R death

Art,
I doubt that Leica would ever start producing lenses for the Visoflex again 
but it's fairly easy to create them yourself, or at least with the aid of a 
camera engineer / machinist.
I had wanted a 180/2.8 lens for my Viso (before I had a reflex camera) but 
couldn't afford the Leitz version.
I found an East German Carl Zeiss (Jena) lens made for the Praktica and 
persuaded a 39mm screw thread onto its rear (after taking off the rear 
shroud) this gave me correct infinity focus after applying a screw to 
bayonet adapter. I've shot some lovely pictures with that lens, published 
photos in fact.
In fact, now that I've an SL(2) with the 180/2.8 lens it's not got a lot to 
do for itself.
D'y'wanna?
(as Frank Zappa once asked)

Someone else went on to talk about the Hektor 125mm lens for the Viso, and 
that it was derived from a projector lens. I hadn't known that.
What I did manage to do was persuade a Hektor 200mm f2.5 projector lens 
onto my camera but the results were far from impressive. Loads of flare off 
hot spots even though the lens looks excellent optically. I suspect there 
are differences in design requirements and production for taking and 
projecting lenses but when I asked Leica whet these might be I received no 
reply. Anyone here care to venture into that ?

Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Peterson Arthur G NSSC [SMTP:PetersonAG@NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL]

You're right about that!  Bring back the 180mm f/2.8 for Visoflex!  Or how
about a zoom?...say, 70-210mm f/4.0?  And a 2X extender?

Art Peterson