Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/29

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: RE: [Leica] Rangefinder or SLR?
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:42:20 -0000

Mark, I have shot with a Viso, and I've shot and shoot with Nikons...F and
F3 - and I would NEVER trade the Nikons for the Viso...Fun? Yes.
Interesting? Yes. A serious working reflex? No...A Rube Goldberg contraption
for pretending that an M is a reflex...:-)

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 1:31 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder or SLR?
>
>
> "B. D. Colen" wrote:
> >
> > But that misses the point, Marc - a rangefinder camera with
> a clunky add
> > does not a modern SLR make - and it doesn't provide the
> utility of a modern
> > SLR. What we are talking here is not a duplication of
> systems, but an
> > additional body and lenses that one presumably does not
> have or want for
> > one's rangefinder.
> >
> I'm butting in:
> clunky but fun perhaps. doable?
> Less clunky than supporting two camera systems perhaps. I
> think thats a strong possibility.
> I plan on getting into Visoflex. It seems workable to me.
> All those mirror options seem real intriguing to me.
> I can see enjoying using it more than a seperate SLR system
> for my SLR needs...
> which are macro and longer lenes.
> Have you shot any film with the Viso B.D.? I plan on it. It
> seems to be it could
> work out.
> I'd like to put my old Nikons to permanent rest.
> Mark Rabiner
>