Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Visoflex
From: "Mark Kronquist" <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:35:55 -0700

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"?
>> >
>>
>>
>