Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Useful? I sold my Visoflex and bought an R outfit...the meter would not work unless you replaced the SLR mirror with a pelicle mirror and recalibrated the meter Also the shortest lens you can mount on a Visoflex is 65mm IMHO it is an interesting piece of history Mark - -----Original Message----- From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 11:19 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] Visoflex >Mark - How useful/usable is the visoflex III with the M6 - Does the metering >work? Are all the lenses useable? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark >> Kronquist >> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 12:04 PM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Visoflex >> >> >> There were three main flavors model 1-slow and awkward, model II/IIa much >> more useful and Model III best. The entire Visoflex line was dropped about >> 1984. It is an SLR Mirror Box and prism finder that converts the >> M leica to >> an SLR. >> >> Mark >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JamieV <jfv@hhill.com> >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >> Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 8:33 AM >> Subject: [Leica] Visoflex >> >> >> >Hello All...can y'all be as kind to provide an elaboration on the >> >Visoflex system. As I understand, via LUG posts, it enables the M >> >system to partake in macro-photography...is this correct? And, is this >> >system available nowadays as "new"? >> > >> >> >