Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Art, I doubt that Leica would ever start producing lenses for the Visoflex again but it's fairly easy to create them yourself, or at least with the aid of a camera engineer / machinist. I had wanted a 180/2.8 lens for my Viso (before I had a reflex camera) but couldn't afford the Leitz version. I found an East German Carl Zeiss (Jena) lens made for the Praktica and persuaded a 39mm screw thread onto its rear (after taking off the rear shroud) this gave me correct infinity focus after applying a screw to bayonet adapter. I've shot some lovely pictures with that lens, published photos in fact. In fact, now that I've an SL(2) with the 180/2.8 lens it's not got a lot to do for itself. D'y'wanna? (as Frank Zappa once asked) Someone else went on to talk about the Hektor 125mm lens for the Viso, and that it was derived from a projector lens. I hadn't known that. What I did manage to do was persuade a Hektor 200mm f2.5 projector lens onto my camera but the results were far from impressive. Loads of flare off hot spots even though the lens looks excellent optically. I suspect there are differences in design requirements and production for taking and projecting lenses but when I asked Leica whet these might be I received no reply. Anyone here care to venture into that ? Jem - -----Original Message----- From: Peterson Arthur G NSSC [SMTP:PetersonAG@NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL] You're right about that! Bring back the 180mm f/2.8 for Visoflex! Or how about a zoom?...say, 70-210mm f/4.0? And a 2X extender? Art Peterson