Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ahh, Rei,, "take a picture" with other brands, "create a photograph" with a Leica. Now you just have to get another body to leave the Viso mounted. And I use an Novoflex reflex housing on a Leica IIIc for close-ups indoors, ( nothing spectacular ) some other lug people have done great outdoor work, so I think I'll go out and see what I can do. The older Leica equipment makes you pause and think, And that is good. Alex - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com> To: "Leica Users Group (LUG)" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:14 AM Subject: [Leica] viso madness > > for no good reason i added a viso II to my leica collection which > already included a viso III. the II, because your downstroke does not > need to load the instant return spring is far shorter than that of the > III--it has a shorter trigger pull. and the lower profile finder > is sexier too. on the downside, you have to separately recock the mirror > and you cannot add and remove the II as easily as with the III--you have > to remove the finder. > > what is the fascination with these machines? my nikon f3 can do > everything in a much less fussy fashion and yet, the viso's siren > call beckons across the decades: "use me!" > > if leica ownership is a fetish, then viso use must be perversion. > > :-) > > -rei - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html