Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:44 PM 10/17/97 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 97-10-17 13:53:38 EDT, you write: ><< . And I don't think a Visoflex can help you here. > You'll have to use the M camera with the built-in Visoflex. The M/Viso/R, > nicknamed R. >> >***************************************************************************** > Jim - you know as well as I do, that the Visoflex was being phased > out at the same time that Leitz began production of the Leicaflex(1964). > The Viso which originally was designed to be used with the long lenses > past 135mm that couldn't be used with a conventional RF Leica or for > the photog. that either couldn't afford or didn't want to buy 2 cameras. > The 65/3.5 Elmar is the shotest lens that can be used on the Viso > and is quite desirable as it can focus from infinity to 1:1 (same size). > > Marvin Marvin, I guess I'm dense. But I do not understand what you said here??? Or why you said it??? Maybe you are reading my post a little too literal. Read between the lines. Because of all of the Leica R bashing that just passed, my attitude was a little on the facetious side. In simple terms, I was saying... You cannot use a Viso on your M, to eliminate parallax, for wide angle work. For ease of photographing, you need an R (or Leicaflex) camera. I was (am) calling a SLR Leica, an "M/Viso/R", probably just to bug those people that believe there is no use for an R "Leica". After all, those clever Leica people built a camera around the Visoflex and called it a Leicaflex. Jim