Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - ---------- > 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"? > >> > > >> > >> > >