Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/04

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Viso: Don't Knock It If You've Never Used It
From: Arnold Abravanel <kidkasha@altavista.com>
Date: 4 Oct 2000 19:36:30 -0700

Well then who is interested in a 180 mm F2.8 Tele-Elmarit

Arnold

On Wed, 04 October 2000, "Anders Nygren" wrote:

> 
> De: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> >
> >If you've never used a Viso, you really cannot evaluate the utility of the
> >system.
> 
> 
> I have never used a Viso, (but I will not let that stop me from making a
> fool
> of myself),  but this does not sound right.
> 
> >
> >The Viso offers infinity focus, of course,
> 
> But only with lenses made for Viso use, right?
> So it will not work with lenses made the last 20 something years.
> 
> >and allows mirror lock-up and
> >DOF preview and, with an M6, VF light-meter LED's.
> 
> Does it really give VF meter LEDS in the Viso VF?
> I would think that You have to use mirror lock-up and check the metering in
> the rangefinder VF.
> 
> >It does not offer
> >selective AND average metering but the original query was comparing an SL
> >to a Viso, and the SL certainly did not offer both.
> >
> >Try it, you'll like it -- and the M6 is a light, small camera with all of
> >the virtues of the RF system, with the added utility a Viso affords.
> >
> 
> 
> /Anders Nygren


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