Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] visoflex novices
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 13:23:23 -0400

At 10:34 AM 10/5/2000 +0200, Robert Appleby wrote:
>Marc, to be as blunt as you, the visoflex seems like a pretty antiquated,
>perverse contraption to be using nowadays when you could just use a (even
>Leica) macro lens on an SLR. I can see that it might have a sort of
>horse-and-carriage charm for people who like fiddling with bits and pieces,
>but how come we don't see people like Heather Angel using this gem?

But why buy two separate cameras when one system camera answers both needs?
 95% of my 35mm photography is with an RF camera -- why invest heavily in a
totally different camera for the remaining 5%?  I agree that if all I did
was telephoto work or the like, the calculus would come out the other way.

Marc

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