Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rei Shinozuka wrote: > > the Q2 LHSA came today including the 2002 Survey results. I found > most of the results unremarkable save for the 30% visoflex use! > or course, once per year qualifier, but never the less, i count myself > amongst a far less exclusive club than i would have imaginged. > > the digital schism demonstrated was strong and expected. > > -rei > > -- > Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com > Ridgewood, New Jersey > Rei I also am into Viso and have one. And the bellows. I think it is a quirk of this list that there is a negative spin put on the Viso and it's use. You can't even mention one without the same 2 or 3 guys jumping on it. Perhaps one of them sold their Viso for a Pentax Spotmatic with a macro lens and has been overcompensating and justifying for years. It opens up a million possibilities and i don't find it's use awkward. It just differs slightly in use from using a EOS strapped to your helmet as you free fall from a very great height. You'd have to duck tape the camera and lens to both hands. Someone would have to do that for you. And i think you'd find the wrong hand taped to the wrong part of the camera Viso combination at times. Velcro might be the answer! Naturally all 30% of the members are not putting their Viso's to good if any use, More so than other types of equipment like a motor drive. But plenty are getting some very amazing use out of it both in the macro and long telephoto areas. My next lens will be the 60 macro. A great knock around lens. I recall Roy Mosses article in the viewfinder on it. The pictures were neither macro nor long telephoto. They were just 60mm pictures. (I think at the beach) cropped normal i think of it. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html