Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Black wrote: >I can make an SLR out of my Leica SM or M cameras. Can you make a >rangefinder out of your SLR?>>>> But John why would you want to? I realize your response is to the following by Bob: > Hee, hee . . . that's pretty funny . . . So, Leitz still considers the > Visoflex a practical approach and touts it today, do they?>>>>> In reality, why wouldn't they continue to promote and make the visoflex, after all there are a great number of SM&M cameras out there where the owner could afford the visoflex, but not an R8 or other R with appropriate and very expensive lenses.. Myself, I can't relate to the visoflex other than a somewhat cumbersome attachment, I realize to those who use it regularly, it isn't. I suppose my being bred on SLR as one camera - one lens and never having a need to make use of a visoflex accounts for my feelings. ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant