Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:05 AM 6/4/05 +0000, John O. Newell wrote: >For any subject that was moving, it was pretty frustrating -- my recollection is that the time from the decision to press the shutter release to the actual exposure was pretty lengthy, and TTL metering with the M5 (and later M6) didn't work at all under those conditions. Metering pretty much required using a tripod and a static subject. John It seems that your experience must have been with a PLOOT or a Viso I. The Viso IIa and III have an immediate setting which allows the photographer to compose and shoot as rapidbly as does any mechanical SLR. I do enjoy photography with a PLOO(T or Viso I with a sport release, but I will cheerfully admit tht these are slower in use than with the later versions of the breed. I suspect that the production of the hard-release Kilfitt reflex housings prompted Leitz to come out with the Visoflex IIa, but, at this remove, we shall probably never know. I wold ask that you reveiw the article I wrote on the Viso IIa variants which was run in VIEWFINDER a decade or so back. I am always anxiious for feedback. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505