Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Visoflex
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 20:49:01 +0100

Useful? Perhaps not but with Visoflex 2 you can raise the mirror so no
recalibration neccessary. And you can mount shorter lenses but they do =
not
focus to infinity unless you use the proper adapters & rings which are =
hard
to find and even harder to know which is which (and which one is needed=
).
Visoflexes II and III are usable but not very convenient.
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
my=F6s suomeksi

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> From: Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Visoflex
> Date: 07. lokakuuta 1998 21:35
>=20
> Useful? I sold my Visoflex and bought an R outfit...the meter would n=
ot
work
> unless you replaced the SLR mirror with a pelicle mirror and recalibr=
ated
> the meter
>=20
> Also the shortest lens you can mount on a Visoflex is 65mm
>=20
> IMHO it is an interesting piece of history
>=20
> 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
>=20
>=20
> >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/I=
Ia
much
> >> more useful and Model III best. The entire Visoflex line was dropp=
ed
> 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, i=
s
this
> >> >system available nowadays as "new"?
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >