RE: [Leica] Rangefinder or SLR?

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

True, and you could also choose to do all your photography on glass plates.
A Visolflex is an interesting artifact of the dawn of the reflex age -
whether or not they continued to be manufactured until relatively recently.
It may be that for someone who simply enjoys using old photo equipment, or
for someone who does occassional macro photography, a Visoflex makes real
sense. But for someone who needs to use long lenses to shoot sports or the
like, it seems somewhat self-defeating not to get modern, autofocus - or at
least modern, as in an R8 - motor-driven camera.


> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> Marc James
> Small
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 4:54 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder or SLR?
>
>
> At 08:49 AM 12/29/1999 EST, Ruralmopics@aol.com wrote:
> >Specifically I'm wondering about the speedboats and the
> batter examples.
> When
> >I shoot a batter I feel like anything less than 300mm is way
> to little lens
> >(even a 400mm is better). I just can't imagine shooting a
> batter with a
> 90mm.
>
> And Leitz had an answer for you, the Visoflex reflex housing, which
> increases the flexibility of the Leica camera from extreme
> microphotography
> to the longest in long-focus lenses.  (And the 5/400 Telyt-V, second
> version, is a killingly wonderful lens, too!)
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>