Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/11

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Screw mount to M
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:41:07 -0400

Right you are...and those who love the buggy whip can still use theirs when
they take their buggy out for a spin around the pasture on Sunday afternoon.
But most buggy whip lovers wouldn't begin to claim that the buggy whip -
well, the buggy - wasn't a pretty anachronistic, slow, awkward mode of
transportation. Fun as an oddity though - absolutely.

B. D.

And, yes, Marc, at one point a number of years ago I did own a Visoflex and
did find it to be a clever Rube Goldberg contraption designed to turn a
rangefinder camera into something  - a reflex - it clearly was never
intended to be. Obviously, if the Viso wasn't odd and cranky, Leica would
never have introduced the reflex line - people would just have flocked to
the Viso and would have been happy with that.
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc James
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Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:46 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Screw mount to M


At 02:30 PM 4/11/02 EDT, SthRosner@aol.com wrote:
>But it ain't fun to fiddle with a Visoflex. Put both those lenses on
adapters
>and a Leicaflex or Leica R and you have the best of both: (old) modern
glass
>(!) and relative ease of use.

Seth

You have posted this repeatedly.  I don't know what you are "fiddlin'"
about with on a Visoflex, but it is a pretty basic apparatus and there
really isn't a lot to it -- you just pick it up, sight, focus, and shoot.
Metering does require you to look through the RF window but, heck, that
just takes a second.

Let's just say that this is a broad and expansive universe with lots of
room for those who dislike the Visoflex and lots of room for those of us
who love it.

Marc

msmall@infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

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