[Leica] Visoflex iii

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Pete,
> 
> I believe the silver vs. black 65mm Elmar is the black one is newer,
> maybe a little sharper but hard to find and much more expensive. The
> lens itself is a screw mount that screws into the 16464 focusing
> mount (which is a bayonet mount for the Visoflex) or the 16558
> adapter for the bellows II. It is not the same screw mount as the
> Leica screw mount cameras.
> 
> Like Bill Larsen I sometimes also use a Canon 20D body for the
> Visoflex lenses and bellows.
> 
> Len
> 
> 
>

I love my Visoflex III and the stuff I can do with it. I just drove it back
from my previous home in Oregon to my new home here in NY so I can have it
with me to work with.

Macro photography is so tricky requiring in the past in film so much testing
ahead of time and bracketing. Mathematics. Cardboard wheels. TTL.
TTL you DO get by the way with the Viso.

Now with digital its a real pleasure to do.

And the Visoflex opens up the use of all kinds of strange and excellent
glass to do it with. Enlarger lenses. Heads of older Leica tele optical
systems. What you cant put in front of a Visoflex with relative ease is not
worth mentioning. I find the use of this tool elegant making for the
production of excellent work. One approaches the capturing of images in an
entirely different, more thoughtful and entirely elegant way.
Its normally called a clumsy work-around by people who have read up on it.
And never tried it.

I think if you shot 4 2 gig cards of rapids rafters and skate borders and
fashion models down the runway and then stopped off at the camera store on
the way home from dinner and picked up an M8 and played with it over the
glas counter for 10 minutes trying to figure out how to focus it you'd call
it also a clumsy work-around to making images.
One needs to walk in its moccasins for an afternoon. Shoot a few cards. To
get a feel for what it might do for you.
Maybe not rapids rafters and skate borders.

For copy work which I've done a ton of it would fit right in to your already
mindset workflo.
Click one pearl two.
Set this adjust that.



Let them eat cake.

Mark William Rabiner
Harlem, NY

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