Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]awesome ric On Sep 15, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > George Lottermoser recently put up the nicest Viso picture I'd ever seen. > Given that the M9 was in the hospital with a bad pixel, I thought I'd try > my hand at the Viso thing with the M8. I've accumulated a big box of > Viso gear in my closet, starting with a 280 Telyt-V and a Viso III I > bought from Emanuel Lowi back in 2002. > > I'm not a bug guy or a macro guy, so here's my first "nature image." It's > not Muffin's prettiest portrait, but it's much closer than I can get with > my M lenses. And not a bad wide-open 1/60th second image for a > 49-year-old lens: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/album_001/L8667972.JPG.html > > 280 Telyt-V + Televit + Visoflex III + M8 > > Since Visoflexes are pretty arcane these days, here's what the Viso setup > itself looks like: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/techie/L1060241.JPG.html > > NOTE: My Viso needed a little tweaking, on the M8 it was definitely > showing close on the film/sensor plane compared to the ground glass > image. I did some googling, and discovered that the Visoflex has shims > under the ground glass carrier which can be used to correct the ground > glass to the sensor. In my case, I had to add one thick and one thin > shim, which I had handy from a junk box of Viso parts: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/techie/xL1060221.JPG.html > > I might try the viso out on my daughters on the soccer field this weekend. > While I doubt I'll be able to get good action shots, maybe I'll come home > with something nice. Besides a sore arm--that stuff is heavy! > > -rei > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information