Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can remove the arm on the visoflex which goes over the shutter release and replace if with on fabricated to fit both. Several years ago, LHSA in I think 2 different articles addressed this for a CL. I think there were 2 differnet Visos used and 1 on the articles may have been w/ a CLE. I can't remember just now, and I no longer have the older publications. I use a Viso II screwmount with adaptor to the CL and M mount for lens. I have been just lifting the little arm out of the way, setting up the shot, make the reading and thereafter using the little lever to lift the mirror and then a calbe to release the shutter. Some day, I'll probably have to get a dual cable release. I remember from the articles, it would not be too hard to make the replacement arm from soft metal and it doesn't have to be beautiful. I think it used a srew/nut arrangement to set the arm/shutter release similar to the Viso II. I do like the Viso for Macro work. I have the right angle finder, but would like to get a chimney since I tend to shoot closer to the ground. At 01:12 AM 11/27/96 +1000, you wrote: >Well I have just ploughed through the last series of digests having been a >bit too work orientated for the last 2 weeks. I thought the ideals of La >Belle France and the US of A were a bit closer than that. It just shows how >superficial civilization is; it wasn't too long ago that Torvill and Dean >danced in the winter olympics in Sarajevo. Still it makes for a good >education, and I must try to learn how to use Eudora filters. In order not >to be flamed I'd better mention that I have been doing a little macro work >lately with the Visoflex coupled to the CLE. The light metering seems to >work fast enough to make the reading once I raise the mirror and I'd be >sure to muck up the exposure if I used the M3. If the shots continue to >work well, I'll have to investigate a linkage for the release bar on the >Visoflex as the twin cable release is a bit too clumsy. Does anyone have >experience or suggestions on this combination? > >Alastair >[PS; I have not gone out on the financial limb to buy the Noctilux and what >was hopefully a good decision did have roots in the comments of this group. >Not quite enough 'love' mail to push me in. Particular thanks to Erwin Puts >for his post. God knows who is left on this list after the 'ravages' of >war!] > > > Brian Levy, J.D. Agincourt Ont. dlevy@worldy.com