Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No phase password. What is it a secret society? -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:13:16 +1000 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Visoflexing > > One good VisoPet deserves another! Maybe they are like those > Poke/Tamogotchie thingies our kids collected whole menageries of. > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/105411328 > (Elmar 135, Viso M8) > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 16 September 2010 11:38, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information