Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Visoflex question
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:42:08 -0800
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At 9:22 PM -0500 2/25/02, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 05:36 PM 2/25/02 -0800, Henning Wulff wrote:
>>
>>Is this a Viso one with an M mount on the front? I didn't think
>>anything like this left the factory intentionally. I believe all Viso
>>I's, whether for M's or the LTM, had the LTM on the front.
>>
>
>Henning
>
>Here is the Visoflex saga:
>
>Spiegelreflexgehause	PLOOT (first version)			1936 
>- 1940		LTM only
>Visoflexgehuase	PLOOT (second version)		1940 - 1951 
>		LTM only
>Visoflex I		OZYXO 16484			1951 - 1962 
>		LTM
>Visoflex I		OZYXO-M or OZXOM 16482	1954 - 1962		M
>
>So, yes, there was a Visoflex I with the M mount.  The Visoflex II (1959 -
>1963) and IIa (1962) also came in both M and LTM versions.  The Visoflex
>III (1963 - 1983, the longest-lived of the lot) only came in M mount.
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
>Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

I think the 16482 only had an M mount on the back, not on the front.

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In reply to: Message from Gary Elshaw <godard@hotmail.com> ([Leica] Visoflex question)
Message from Gary Elshaw <godard@hotmail.com> ([Leica] Visoflex question)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Visoflex question)